Rachel Yoder‘s writing is currently featured in the Normal School and Gulf Coast. In 2012 she won the Missouri Review Editors’ Prize in Fiction and in 2014 was named runner-up for the Chicago Tribune‘s Nelson Algren Award. She lives in Iowa City where she directs the Iowa Youth Writing Project and is a founding editor of draft: the journal of process. More info at racheljyoder.com.
Fall 2009
Shark
That summer Ian’s mama was dying of cancer. Long after, he would remember the thunderstorms—how they blew in quick and let down hard, how the clouds came and ate the […]