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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. Her mother raised her in overalls and sometimes bare feet and sometimes ballet shoes. Rae spent many afternoons on the Ohio River fishing in a skiff with her grandfather, snapping green beans on the back porch and making cornhusk dolls. She has lived in Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Washington, D.C, Florida and NYC.
Rae earned an M.A. in Writing at Johns Hopkins University and was a recipient of the Conference on Craft Fellowship. She received her M.F.A. in Fiction and Creative Nonfiction from American University, where she was the recipient of the Starr and Sartwell scholarships. She has taught at Johns Hopkins, American University, the International Writing Program at Iowa State University, The Writer’s Center, Gotham Writers and other programs and campuses.
Rae’s fiction and creative nonfiction has won honors, prizes, scholarships and fellowships from the North American Review, the &NOW Awards, Johns Hopkins, American University, Aspen Writers Foundation and more.
The mother of two, Rae now splits time between NYC and the Gulf of Mexico with her husband, Rand, and Havanese puppy, Sophi. She writes Openings, a culture and literary criticism column. She is the founding editor of Eckleburg and the Warm Words Project, a homeless and domestic violence outreach initiative. Join Rae on Instagram @raeclineauthor and on TikTok @preciousugly.
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