After a dozen years as an editor of scholarly books, at Oxford and Duke University Presses, Rachel Toor slid down the ladder of social mobility and did a stint in college admissions, quitting to write Admissions Confidential: An Insider's Account of the Elite College Selection Process (St. Martin's, 2001). Since then she has published The Pig and I (Penguin, 2005; Bison Books, 2009; Personal Record (University of Nebraska Press, 2008); On the Road to Find Out (FSG, 2014, a young adult novel); Misunderstood (FSG 2016); Write Your Way In (University of Chicago Press, 2018). Rachel writes a monthly column in The Chronicle of Higher Education and is a frequent contributor to Inside Higher Ed. Her work has appeared in various and diverse places, including The New York Times, The LA Times, Ploughshares, Glamour, Inside Higher Ed, Reader's Digest, Runner's World, Ascent, JAMA (The Journal of the American Medical Association).
Rachel is a professor of Creative Writing at Eastern Washington University in Spokane.
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