Rachel Pastan

Rachel Pastan is the author of three previous novels, most recently Alena , which was named an Editors' Choice in The New York Times Book Review . The daughter of a molecular geneticist and a poet, she has worked as editor at large at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, and taught fiction writing at the Bennington Writing Seminars, Swarthmore College, and elsewhere.

Rachel Pastan is the author of three previous novels, most recently Alena , which was named an Editors' Choice in The New York Times Book Review . The daughter of a molecular geneticist and a poet, she has worked as editor at large at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, and taught fiction writing at the Bennington Writing Seminars, Swarthmore College, and elsewhere. See less