Rachel Harkai is currently the Writer-in-Residence with Hub City Writers Project of Spartanburg, South Carolina. She is the recipient of bachelors degrees in Creative Writing and  Comparative Literature from the University of Michigan. She has received four Hopwood Awards for both poetry and nonfiction and is the former host of the Living Writers Show, a literary talk show on WCBN-FM 88.3 Ann Arbor. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Michigan Quarterly Review, Hotel Amerika, Spork, Portland Review and elsewhere.