Rachel Ballenger

Rachel Ballenger is a writer and translator from California. Her work appears in The Common, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Electric Literature, The Barcelona Review and elsewhere. She received her BA from the UC Berkeley and her MFA in Fiction from the University of Houston. Former Fiction editor of Gulf Coast, her work has been supported by the Fulbright foundation, the Spanish commission of Foreign Affairs, Jiwar Creation and Society, and Inprint. Her novel-in-progress, Take My Life, won the Inprint Joan and Stanford Alexander Prize in Fiction. She lives in Barcelona.