New American Press

9781941561225

How to Walk on Water and Other Stories

Rachel Swearingen

New American Press

9781941561225

There's just the right amount of daring in these stories that you almost don't realize how odd they are until they are over. Fans of short fiction would be wise to keep an eye out for future work from this fantastic writer. -- THIRD COAST REVIEW, Allison Manley

About the Author

Rachel Swearingen is the author of How to Walk on Water and Other Stories, winner of the 2018 New American Press Fiction Prize. Her stories and essays have appeared in VICE, The Missouri Review, Kenyon Review, Off Assignment, Agni, American Short Fiction, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the 2015 Missouri Review Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prize in Fiction, a 2012 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, and the 2011 Mississippi Review Prize in Fiction. In 2019, she was named one of 30 Writers to Watch by the Guild Literary Complex. She holds a BA from the University of Wisconsin - Madison and a PhD from Western Michigan University, and teaches at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago.