Rachel Weaver is the author of the novel Point of Direction which Oprah Magazine described as a "strikingly vivid debut novel." In his review on NPR's All Things Considered, Alan Cheuse described the novel as one that "pulls you in". Point of Direction was chosen by the American Booksellers Association as one of the top ten debuts of Spring 2014 (an Indies Introduce Pick) and by IndieBound as an Indies Next Pick. Prior to completing her MFA in creative writing from Naropa University, Rachel Weaver worked for the Forest Service in Alaska studying songbirds, raptors, and black bears. Rachel's work was chosen to represent Naropa University in 2006, 2007, and 2008 in the Harcourt Brace Best New Voices in American Fiction contest. In 2006, she was awarded the Katie O'Brien Scholarship for Fiction and in 2009, Rachel was awarded honorary mention in the New Millennium Fiction Contest. Her work has appeared in the Gettysburg Review, Blue Mesa Review, Alaska Women Speak and Fly Fishing New England. Point of Direction is her first novel.