Rebecca Kuder’s debut novel is The Eight Mile Suspended Carnival (What Books Press, 2021). Her stories and essays have appeared in Los Angeles Review of Books; Hags on Fire; Bayou Magazine; Shadows and Tall Trees; Year’s Best Weird Fiction; The Rumpus; Crooked Houses; and elsewhere. She received an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles and an individual artist excellence award from the Ohio Arts Council. Rebecca teaches in college, university, K-12, and community settings. She offers workshops and coaching on the creative process and how to coexist with the inner critic. She lives in Yellow Springs, Ohio, with the writer Robert Freeman Wexler and their daughter.