Rachel Weaver is the author of the novel Point of Direction (Ig Publishing, May 2014), which Oprah Magazine described as a “strikingly vivid debut novel” and named to the May 2014 list of Top Ten Titles to Pick Up Now. Point of Direction was chosen by the American Booksellers Association as a top ten debut for Spring 2014, by IndieBound as an Indie Next List Pick, and won the Willa Cather Award for Fiction in 2015. Prior to earning her MFA in Writing and Poetics from Naropa University, Rachel worked as a biologist for the Forest Service in Alaska studying bears, raptors and songbirds. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The Sun Magazine, Cutbank, The Southeast Review, RiverTeeth, and The Gettysburg Review, among others.
