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Rachel Swearingen

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in Wisconsin, The United States

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Fiction, Contemporary

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July 2010

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Rachel Swearingen is the author of HOW TO WALK ON WATER AND OTHER STORIES, winner of the New American Press Fiction Prize, a New York Times “New & Noteworthy" selection, and the Chicago Writers Association 2021 Book of the Year. Her stories and essays have appeared in Electric Lit, VICE, The Missouri Review, Kenyon Review, Off Assignment, Agni, American Short Fiction, and elsewhere. A recipient of the Missouri Review Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize in Fiction, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, and the Mississippi Review Prize in Fiction, she lives in Chicago and teaches for the graduate creative writing program at Cornell College. ...more

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	How to Walk on Water and Other Stories 4.18 avg rating — 114 ratings — published 2020	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Love in the Time of Time's Up: A Short Fiction Anthology by Christine Sneed (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Lynn Freed (Contributor), Gina Frangello (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.55 avg rating — 31 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fifth Wednesday Journal Fall 2016 Issue 19 by Vern Miller (Editor), Chris Green (Editor), Rachel Swearingen (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars