Rachel Lyon is the author of SELF PORTRAIT WITH BOY (Scribner 2018), which was a finalist for the Center for Fiction's 2018 First Novel Prize and the 2020 International Dublin Literary Award. Her short work has appeared in publications such as One Story, Longreads, and Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading. Rachel is the Editor-in-Chief of the literary journal Epiphany. She has taught creative writing at Catapult, the Sackett Street Writers Workshop, and elsewhere.

Writer, editor, and journalist interested in architecture, science, thrills and eclectic things.

I'm a writer of short stories, essays, and the occasional novel. I love retellings of all kinds, but most particularly of historical events, especially if they involve disaster or Japan (or both). I also teach fiction writing and take on occasional editing or manuscript consultation gigs.