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, and The Washington Square 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.