Rachel Ephraim (she/her) teaches Fiction, Memoir, and Social Justice at Bard Early College. She is also a faculty member at The Center for Writing and Ethics, an initiative of Bard College’s Written Arts Program. She received her M.F.A. in Fiction from Columbia University and has been a reader in the Fiction Department of The New Yorker and a volunteer screener for Ploughshares. Her fiction has been published or is forthcoming in Electric Literature, Prairie Schooner, The Washington Square Review, Litro, and The Apple Valley Review, among others. Fellowships include: Vermont Studio Center, La Muse, Milkwood International, and Gowry Art Institute. She is represented by Ellen Levine and Audrey Crooks at Trident Media Group.