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Rachel Yoder

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About

Rachel Yoder is the author of Nightbitch, her debut novel released in July 2021.

Selected as an Indie Next Pick in August 2021, Nightbitch has gone on to be named a best book of the year by Esquire and Vulture and recognized as a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Fiction, finalist for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, and on the shortlist for the McKitterick Prize. To date, Nightbitch has been translated into 13 languages. A film adaptation directed by Marielle Heller and starring Amy Adams will be released in 2023.

Rachel is a graduate of the Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program and also holds an MFA in fiction from the University of Arizona. She grew up in a Mennonite community in the Appalachian foothills of eastern Ohio and now lives in Iowa City.

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