About Rachel

Rachel Hall’s collection of linked stories, Heirlooms, was awarded the BkMk Press 2015 G.S. Sharat Chandra prize, selected by Marge Piercy. 

Hall’s stories and essays have appeared in a number of journals and anthologies, including Bellevue Literary Review, Blackbird, Cimarron Review, New England Review and Scoudrel Time. In addition, she has received awards and honors from publications such as Lilith and Glimmer Train, and New Letters and from the Sewanee and Bread Loaf Writers Conferences, Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, as well as Ragdale and the Ox-Bow School, and Write On, Door County.  

She holds an MFA from Indiana University where she was the Hemingway Fellow in Fiction. Currently, Hall is Professor of English Emerita at the State University of New York-Geneseo. She teaches creative writing and literature and holds two Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence—one for teaching and one for her creative work.

In addition to teaching and writing, Rachel curates the Bookeater Reading Series which brings together readers and writers at Bookeater Cafe and Bookstore, 836 S. Clinton Ave, Rochester, NY. Writers interested in reading in this series should contact Rachel at rachelhallwriter@gmail.com