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http://www.rachelmharper.com/About Rachel
Rachel M. Harper is a novelist and screenwriter based in Los Angeles—but she doesn’t want you to hold that against her. She is the author of three novels: The Other Mother (Spring 2022 from Counterpoint Press), This Side of Providence, shortlisted for the 2016 Ernest J. Gaines Award, and Brass Ankle Blues, named a Borders’ Original Voices Award finalist and a Target Breakout Book. Her short fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including African American Review, Chicago Review, Carolina Quarterly, BLACK COOL—One Thousand Streams of Blackness, and Mending the World. One of her new passions is book to tv/film adaptation. In addition to adapting her own work, she’s collaborated with colleagues from Spalding, working with Sam Zalutsky to write a television pilot based on Jacqueline Woodson’s novel Hush, chosen as a Sundance Institute Screenwriters Lab finalist, and with Rebecca Walker, adapting her novel Áde: A Love Story for K Period Media. She has received fellowships from Yaddo and The MacDowell Colony.
