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Rachel Yoder is an American writer from Iowa City, Iowa, best known for her novel Nightbitch.[1][2]

Life and career

Yoder grew up in an intentional Mennonite community in the Appalachian foothills of eastern Ohio, before attending the University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program and earning an MFA from the University of Arizona.[3] She earned an undergraduate degree from Georgetown University. She is the founder of draft: the journal of process.

In 2021, she released her debut novel Nightbitch, which was a "best book of the year" in Esquire and Vulture and a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel, among other awards.

References

  1. ^ Blakemore, A. K. (17 July 2021). "Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder review a feral debut". The Guardian. Retrieved October 4, 2022.
  2. ^ "A Novel That Imagines Motherhood as an Animal State". The New Yorker. 26 July 2021. Retrieved October 4, 2022.
  3. ^ "The Monumental Unsaid: A Conversation with Rachel Yoder". Los Angeles Review of Books. 23 August 2021. Retrieved October 4, 2022.


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