Rachel Weaver

Rachel Weaver is the author of the novel Point of Direction, which was named a Top Ten Book to Pick Up Now by O, The Oprah Magazine and was the winner of the 2015 WILLA Literary Award for contemporary fiction. It was also chosen by te American Booksellers Association as a Top Ten Debut for Spring 2014 and by IndieBound as an Indie Next List pick. Prior to earning her MFA in writing and poetics from Naropa University, Rachel worked for the US 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. For more information, visit www.rachelweaver.net.