Author: Rachel Luria

A Pushcart Prize nominee and two-time winner of the South Carolina Fiction Project, Rachel Luria has been a contributor at the Tin House Summer Writer’s Workshop, and her fiction has been recognized by Glimmer Train as a Top 25 Finalist in their Very Short Fiction contest. Her work has appeared in Saw Palm, Phoebe, Dash Literary Journal, Literary House Review, Yemassee, and others. Rachel Luria is also a co-editor of the recently published anthology Neil Gaiman and Philosophy. In 2006, she earned her M.F.A. in Creative Writing at the University of South Carolina and is currently an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition at Florida Atlantic University.
In the Park with All the Birds

In the Park with All the Birds

It’s January but it’s still hot and sticky. Florida is like that. Some people like it, but Misty can’t stand it. She is sitting on the swing set and the plastic is burning her thighs. A lot of the parents and kids at the playground are giving her dirty looks, ... Read More
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