Fiction
Publications
“Strangers,” The Colorado Sun, May 28, 2023. Online.
“Pain,” Northwest Review 50 (3): 188–190. Print. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
“Vaccination Against Love,” Hong Kong Review 2 (4): 49–80. Print.
“Visitation Day,” North American Review, December 29, 2020. Online.
“CD Player.” Ms. Aligned 3, 50–59. Print. Read an excerpt here.
“A Deal.” Green Mountains Review (Issue 31): 162–169. Print and online.
“Sitter.” Pigeon Pages, March 24, 2019, Online.
“Our First Market Day.” Lunch Ticket 14 (Winter/Spring 2019). Online. (young adult)
“Railing.” One Story, Issue 243, July 19, 2018, Print. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
“Vanport City.” Flyway (Spring 2017). Online.
“A Normal Rabbit.” Among Animals 2, 139–151. Ashland, OR: Ashland Creek Press, 2016. Print.
“A Normal Rabbit.” Concho River Review 30, no. 1 (Spring 2016): 7–16. Print.
“Elevator Girl.” Farallon Review 4 (2012): 81–98. Print.
Awards
“Bratwurst Haven” was one of thirty on the shortlist for The Master’s Review Anthology 2020.
Tree Line: a Novella was one of twenty-four finalists in Los Galesburg’s 2019 open reading period.
People along the Sand: a Novel was one of five finalists in Forest Avenue Press’s 2018 reading period.
Participated in a workshop led by Jim Shepard at the Tin House Workshop, summer 2017.
Was one of four finalists for the St. Albans Writer-in-Residence at St. Albans School in Washington, DC, 2012.
“The Red Heads” won the 2012 Russ MacDonald Graduate Creative Writing Award at West Virginia University.
The Back Field received honorable mention in the West Virginia Writers, Inc. Children’s Book Competition, 2010.
Received full tuition waivers and a graduate assistantship at the West Virginia University MFA program.
Studied in the selective Kidd Tutorial Program at the University of Oregon.
Poetry
Chapbooks
City Walks. Georgetown, KY: Finishing Line Press, 2022. Print.
Between Work and Light. Chicago: Dancing Girl Press, 2018. Print.
Other
“Returning,” “Blackberries,” and “Near the Solstice.” Offcourse 67. Online.
“Love in the Afternoon” and “Squall.” Aurorean (Spring/Summer 2014): 6–7. Print.
“Winter Sketches 3.” Penwood Review 18, no. 1 (Spring 2014): 3. Print.
“Reverent Slowness.” Windover 18 (Spring 2014): 12–15. Print.
Nonfiction
Publications
“The First Domino?: On the Budget Cuts at West Virginia University,” The Writer’s Chronicle, November/December 2023.
Read Rachel’s Substack newsletter, A Writer in Publishing.
“Interview: Wendy J. Fox.” Interview by Rachel King. CRAFT, June 4, 2019.
“On Ending Polyphonic Novels.” CRAFT, November 29, 2017.
Wrote over sixty reviews of books and literary journals for NewPages.
Read a review of Kevin Oderman’s Cannot Stay.