Rachel Furey grew up in upstate New York, received her BS from SUNY Brockport, and recently completed her MFA at Southern Illinois University. Her nonfiction has appeared in the Press 53 Open Awards Anthology, Women’s Basketball Magazine, and the Twins and More edition of Chicken Soup for the Soul. She also placed as a finalist in the 2008 Charles Johnson Student Fiction Award and Glimmer Train‘s New Writer’s Story Contest and had work appear in Main Street Rag‘s short fiction anthology XX Eccentric. In the Fall, she plans to begin work on her PhD at Texas Tech University.
Her short story “Birth Act” (Winner of the Wabash Prize in Fiction) appeared in Issue 21.2 – Summer/Fall 2009.
