Rachel S.

Rachel holds an MFA in fiction from Columbia University and is an acclaimed author and teacher. Her first book, The First Hurt, was short-listed for both The Story Prize and the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award and was named one of the New York Public Library’s “25 Books to Remember” in 2006. Her debut novel, Living Room (2009), was praised as “perfectly paced” by The New York Times Book Review. In addition to teaching fiction in Columbia’s MFA Program, Rachel leads Crimson Education’s...