Sunday, September 7th
12pm CT – Plymouth Court Stage

Rachel Swearingen is the author of How to Walk on Water and Other Stories. Her work has appeared in Electric Lit, The Missouri Review, Kenyon Review, Off Assignment, Agni, American Short Fiction, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the Berlin Writing Prize, the New American Press Fiction Prize, the Missouri Review Editors’ Prize in Fiction, the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, and the Mississippi Review Prize in Fiction. Rachel has taught writing and literature at The School of the Art Institute, Cornell College, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo College and elsewhere. She lives in Chicago.