Rachel Mann is the author of ON BLACKBERRY HILL, winner of the 2016 National Jewish Book Award for Young Adult Literature. Her play CLASS MOTHER was nominated for best play at the Winterfest Theater Festival 2016. Her theatrical work has been seen at The Bechdel Group, Forward Theater Company in Madison, WI, Ensemble Studio Theatre's First Brew, Naked Angels Tuesdays at 9, The PlayGround Experiment, and InViolet Theater in NYC. Her writing has been published and performed at The Forward, Kveller, Liars' League NYC, Manhattan Lit Crawl, and The Fish Anthology (UK). Rachel was a member of Athena Theatre's 2017 playwrights' group, Athena Writes. She graduated from the Novel Studio course at City University London, as well as from Columbia (BA) and NYU (MA). She lives in NYC with her husband and three daughters.

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