Writers Read with Rachel Yoder, author of NIGHTBITCH

Name: Writers Read with Rachel Yoder, author of NIGHTBITCH
Start: 2025-02-28T19:30:00-05:00
Location: 1200 Park Road, Harrisonburg, VA, United States, Virginia 22802

Schedule

Fri, 28 Feb, 2025 at 07:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

1200 Park Road, Harrisonburg, VA, United States, Virginia 22802 | Harrisonburg, VA

Eastern Mennonite University's Martin Chapel. Free. Books for sale.
Rachel Yoder is the author of Nightbitch (2021), her debut novel. A film adaptation of her novel, written & directed by Marielle Heller and starring Amy Adams, will be released on Netflix in December 2024. Formerly the 23/24 Trias Writer-in-Residence at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, she now serves as Assistant Professor of Screenwriting and Cinema Arts at the University of Iowa. Selected as an Indie Next Pick in August 2021, Nightbitch was named a best book of the year by Esquire and Vulture and recognized as a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Fiction, finalist for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, and shortlist for the McKitterick Prize. Rachel’s stories and essays have appeared in publications such as Harper’s, The New York Times, The Paris Review, The Southern Review, and The Sun. With Mark Polanzak, she is a founding editor of draft: the journal of process.