Rachel Weaver

Rachel Weaver is a writer of fiction and nonfiction. Her debut novel Point of Direction was chosen by the ABA in spring 2014 as a Top Ten Debut and awarded the 2015 Willa Cather Award for Contemporary Fiction. Her second novel, The Last Run, is forthcoming. Prior to earning her MFA in writing and poetics from Naropa University, she worked for the Forest Service in Alaska studying bears, raptors, and songbirds. She is on faculty at Wilkes University’s low-residency MFA program and at Lighthouse Writers Workshop. She lives in Colorado.