Prior to completing her MFA in Writing and Poetics at Naropa University, Rachel worked for the Forest Service in Alaska studying songbirds, raptors, and black and brown bears. Point of Direction was described by Oprah Magazine as "stunningly vivid" and in his review on NPR's All Things Considered, Alan Cheuse described the book as one that "pulls you in."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 a position as the Writer-in-Residence at the Footpaths to Creativity Center in Portugal. In June 2009, Rachel was awarded an honorary mention in the New Millennium Fiction Contest. Publications include The Gettysburg Review, Blue Mesa Review, Bombay Gin, Inside Passages, Fly Fishing New England, and Alaska Women Speak.She currently lives in Colorado with her husband and twin boys.www.rachelweaver.net www.sandstoneediting.com