Rachel Ephraim
Rachel Ephraim

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Rachel Ephraim teaches fiction and memoir at Writopia Lab year-round in Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Westchester and spearheaded the establishment of Writopia Brooklyn. Rachel's fiction, "Please Send a Published Copy to 101 Harris Road," was published in the Fall 2008 edition of the Apple Valley Review and is currently being taught by Professor Harry Youtt in UCLA’s undergraduate writing program. Her work has also appeared or is forthcoming in The Barcelona Review, Word Riot, Listen Party, The New York Spirit, and the Park Slope Reader. In 2009 and 2010, Rachel's students were honored at the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards with both regional and national awards. Through Writopia, Rachel has led workshops at MS 51, PS 58, Friend's Seminary, and Bryant Park. She also runs a monthly reading series at FreeBird Books and Goods in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. In 2010 Rachel was accepted as a resident to La Muse Inn, an artists’ residency in the south of France. In 2011, she will attend Vermont Studio Center on a Writer’s Grant. She is currently pursuing her MFA at Columbia University and working in the editorial department of The New Yorker.