Rachel’s debut nov­el is A Bend In The Stars. It has been named a New York Times Sum­mer Read­ing Selec­tion and a Barnes & Noble Dis­cov­er Great New Writ­ers selec­tion. It is also a Boston Globe Best­seller. Rachel’s sec­ond nov­el, Atom­ic Anna, is forth­com­ing from Grand Cen­tral (2022). Rachel is a pro­lif­ic writer and review­er for the LA Review of Books, the Tel Aviv Review of Books and Dead­Dar­lings. She is an Hon­orary Research Asso­ciate at the Hadas­sah-Bran­deis Insti­tute and a grad­u­ate of GrubStreet’s Nov­el Incu­ba­tor. She is also the founder of Debut Spot­light and the Debut Edi­tor at A Mighty Blaze. In a for­mer life, she was a hedge fund man­ag­er and a spin instruc­tor. She has degrees from Har­vard in Busi­ness, and Lit­er­a­ture and Phi­los­o­phy. She lives in Brook­line, MA.