Rachel Yoder

Rachel Yoder is the author of Nightbitch, named a best book of the year by Esquire and Vulture, finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award and VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, shortlisted for the McKitterick Prize, and an Indie Next pick. A film adaptation produced by Annapurna, directed by Marielle Heller, and starring Amy Adams will be released in 2024. Nightbitch has been translated into 13 languages. Rachel is a graduate of the Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program and also holds an MFA in fiction from the University of Arizona. She is a founding editor of draft: the journal of process. Rachel grew up in a Mennonite community in the Appalachian foothills of eastern Ohio and now lives in Iowa City.