Rachel Kadish

Rachel Kadish is the award-winning author of the novels The Weight of Ink, From a Sealed Room, and Tolstoy Lied: a Love Story, as well as the novella I Was Here. Her short fiction has been read on National Public Radio and has appeared in Ploughshares, Iowa Review, and in the Pushcart Prize Anthology. Her essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, Paris Review, Slate, Cognoscenti, and in numerous anthologies and textbooks.

Her novels have won the National Jewish Book Award, the John Gardner Fiction Award, the Boston Authors Club’s Julia Ward Howe Fiction Award, and the American Jewish Libraries Fiction Award. She was the Koret writer-in-residence at Stanford University, and has been a fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, Harvard/Radcliffe’s Bunting Institute, and the New York Public Library / Fordham University. She has been granted residencies at the Bellagio Center (Rockefeller Foundation) and the Bogliasco Foundation, and the Yaddo and MacDowell colonies.

She lives outside Boston and teaches fiction in Harvard University’s Division of Continuing Education and in the Creative Writing MFA Program of the Jewish Theological Seminary. She co-founded the initiative Voices Between: Stories Against Extremism.