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Rachel Swearingen

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in Wisconsin, The United States

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Fiction, Contemporary

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Rachel Swearingen is the author of How to Walk on Water and Other Stories, which received the New American Press Fiction Prize and was named the 2021 Chicago Writers Association Book of the Year, as well as a New York Times Book Review “New & Noteworthy Selection.” Her writings have appeared in Electric Lit, VICE, The Missouri Review, Kenyon Review, Agni, American Short Fiction, Off Assignment, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the Berlin Writing Prize, the Missouri Review Editors’ Prize in Fiction, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, and the Mississippi Review Prize in Fiction.

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Average rating: 4.23 · 153 ratings · 51 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	How to Walk on Water and Other Stories 4.14 avg rating — 120 ratings — published 2020	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Love in the Time of Time's Up: A Short Fiction Anthology by Christine Sneed (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Lynn Freed (Contributor), Gina Frangello (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.55 avg rating — 31 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fifth Wednesday Journal Fall 2016 Issue 19 by Vern Miller (Editor), Chris Green (Editor), Rachel Swearingen (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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