Rachel Sherman writes stories
like splinters: they get under your skin and stay with you long after
you've closed the book. These haunting stories are both wonderfully, deeply
weird and unsettlingly familiar."
-Judy Budnitz
-Judy Budnitz
Rachel Sherman was born in 1975. She holds an MFA in
fiction from Columbia University. Her short stories have appeared in McSweeney's,
Open City,
Post Road,
Conjunctions,
n+1, and
Story Quarterly, among other publications,
and in the book
Full Frontal Fiction: The Best of Nerve Anthology Her book of short stories, "The First Hurt" (Open City Books) was short listed for The Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, and was named one of the 25 Books to Remember from 2006 by the New York Public Library.
Full Frontal Fiction: The Best of Nerve Anthology Her book of short stories, "The First Hurt" (Open City Books) was short listed for The Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, and was named one of the 25 Books to Remember from 2006 by the New York Public Library.
