Rachel M. Hanson lives and writes in Asheville, North Carolina. Her work can be found in Creative Nonfiction, The Iowa Review, Ninth Letter, North American Review, Best New Poets, The Minnesota Review, Juked, and elsewhere. A recipient of the Olive B. O'Connor Fellowship in Nonfiction at Colgate University, Rachel holds a PhD from the University of Missouri and is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of North Carolina Asheville.