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About Rae
Rae Cline is the author of the story collection The Indefinite State of Imaginary Morals. Her fiction and essays have appeared in The Paris Review, McSweeney’s, North American Review and StoryQuarterly, among other publications. She is the founding editor of Eckleburg and lives in New York City. Precious Ugly, her debut novel, was a finalist for the Curt Johnson Prose Award for Fiction and shortlisted for Craft’s First Chapters Award.
Born in Ohio, Rae’s first childhood home was a trailer. And she loves that. Her father was an Army veteran and died when she was one year old. Her mother, a resilient survivor, raised her in overalls and sometimes bare feet and sometimes ballet shoes. Rae spent many afternoons on the Ohio River in a little skiff with her grandfather, learning to catch catfish. She also learned to clean them and make cornhusk dolls. Rae has lived in Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Washington, D.C, Florida and NYC. What a ride.
Rae earned an M.A. in Writing from Johns Hopkins University and an M.F.A in Fiction and Creative Nonfiction from American University. She has taught at Johns Hopkins University, American University, the International Writing Program at Iowa State University, The Writer’s Center in Bethesda, Gotham Writers in NYC and other programs and campuses.
Rae’s fiction and creative nonfiction won prizes, scholarships and fellowships from Johns Hopkins, American University, Aspen Writers Foundation and North American Review among others. She earned an M.A. in Writing at Hopkins and received her M.F.A. in Fiction and Creative Nonfiction from American University, where she was the recipient of the Starr and Sartwell scholarships. A teacher for thirty-five plus years, she taught writing and literature at the secondary level, working with at-risk youth, mainstream youth and gifted and talented. She currently teaches and has taught on college campuses, lecturing at Johns Hopkins, American University, the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, McNeese State University and other campuses and venues.
The mother of two, Rae now splits time between NYC and the Gulf of Mexico with her husband, Rand, and Havanese puppy, Sophi. She write the Openings book recommendation column and is a Democratic committee person as well as the founder of the Warm Words Project, a homeless and domestic violence outreach initiative.
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