Rachel Engelman is a winner of the Stella Kupferberg Memorial Short Story Prize, and her stories have been performed on Selected Shorts, appeared in Electric Literature, Crazyhorse, the Iowa Review, and Diario Clarín, among others, and been anthologized in the Masters Review Anthology. She is the founder of the Walrus School, a creative writing school in Buenos Ares, Argentina, and she has taught at the UCLA Extension, the Badgerdog Creative Writing Summer Camp, and the Mainspring School. She holds a BA from Skidmore College and an MFA in Fiction from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin.