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Biography

Rachel Furey hails from upstate New York and earned her BS in English from SUNY Brockport. She holds an MFA from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale and a PhD from Texas Tech. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in several journals. She’s a winner of Sycamore Review’s Wabash Prize for Fiction, The Briar Cliff Review’s Creative Nonfiction contest, and Hunger Mountain’s Katherine Paterson Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing.

Education/Academic qualification

English, Ph.D., Texas Tech University

… → 2014

Fiction Writing, M.F.A., Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

… → 2009

English, B.Sc., State University of New York, College at Brockport

… → 2006