Rachel Yoder

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

Rachel Yoder
Occupationnovelist
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Arizona
University of Iowa
Period2020s–present
Notable worksNightbitch
Website
www.racheljyoder.com

Life and career

Yoder grew up in an intentional Mennonite community in Ohio, before attending the University of Iowa Non-Fiction writing program and earning an MFA from the University of Arizona.[3] 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 Fiction, 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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