Rachel is the author of two novels, most recently The Great Reclamation (Riverhead, 2023), which won the New American Voices Award and the Association of Asian American Studies Book Award, was longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal of Excellence, the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, the Dublin Literary Award, as well as being named a New York Times Editors’ Choice and a Best Book of 2023 by The New Yorker and TIME. She is an Assistant Professor of English at Wesleyan University and lives in New York City with her family.