title: Rachel Yoder
text: # Rachel Yoder
  
  Rachel Yoder is an American writer from Iowa City, Iowa, best known for her novel Nightbitch.
  
  ## Life and career
  
  Yoder grew up in an intentional Mennonite community in Ohio, before attending the University of Iowa Non-Fiction writing program and earning an MFA from the University of Arizona. She is the founder of draft: the journal of process. In 2021, she released her debut novel Nightbitch, which was a "best book of the year" in Esquire and Vulture and a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Fiction, among other awards.
  
  