Rachel Hall is the author of Heirlooms (BkMk Press, 2016), which was selected by Marge Piercy for the 2015 G.S. Sharat Chandra Prize. Heirlooms was also the 2016 winner of the Phillip McMath Post Publication Award. Hall’s short stories have appeared in New England Review, Crab Orchard Review, Gettysburg Review, and Natural Bridge. She has received honors and awards from Lilith, Glimmer Train, Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ conferences, Ragdale, the Ox-Bow School of the Arts, and the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts. Hall is a Professor of English in the Creative Writing Program at the State University of New York at Geneseo.  

Photo by Maude Hall-Skillem