RACHEL CANTOR was born in Hartford, Connecticut, and raised in Italy. She worked for jazz festivals in France and food festivals in Australia before getting degrees in international development and fiction writing. Her short stories have appeared in The Paris Review, One Story, Kenyon Review, Fence, and numerous other publications. She has lived in seven U.S. states and worked in fifteen countries on six continents. She now lives in Brooklyn, where she is always at work on another book.
