Originally from Upstate New York, Rachel Furey is a recent graduate of Southern Illinois University-Carbondale’s MFA program and a current PhD student at Texas Tech. Her work has appeared in the Press 53 Open Awards Anthology, Women’s Basketball Magazine, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Twins and More, Freight Stories, XX Eccentric, Squid Quarterly, and elsewhere. Earlier this year, Tobias Wolff selected her story “Birth Act” as the winner of Sycamore Review’s Wabash Prize for fiction.