She is the 2016 winner of the Indiana Review ½ K Prize, the Orison Anthology Nonfiction Award, and the Crab Orchard Review Special Feature Literary Nonfiction Award. Her chapbook of prose poems, “Muck Fire,” appeared at Spring Garden Press in 2011, and her essays have received notable mention in the Best American Essays series (2012 and 2015). Rachael is currently at work on a book-length collection of lyric essays focused on flight and trauma.