Rachel Swearingen

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Rachel Swearingen’s stories have appeared in VICE, The Missouri Review, Kenyon Review, Agni, American Short Fiction, and elsewhere. Her work has garnered several awards, including the 2015 Missouri Review Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize in Fiction, a 2013 MacDowell Colony fellowship, a 2012 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award, and the 2011 Mississippi Review Prize in Fiction. She is a lecturer at the School of the Art Institute and lives in Chicago.

Prize anthology mentions

Pushcart (Fiction) 2013*

Best American Short Stories 2018*

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