Rachel Unkefer's work has appeared in Crab Orchard Review, the anthology "Shaking Intensified," Prime Number Magazine, and elsewhere. Her unpublished novel A Useful Life was a semifinalist in the Faulkner-Wisdom competition and she has been awarded residencies by VCCA and Writers in the Heartland. She is president and a founding member of WriterHouse, a non-profit writing community in Charlottesville, Virginia.