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Rachel Ayers lives in Alaska, where she writes cabaret shows, daydreams, and looks at mountains a lot. She has a degree in Library and Information Science, which comes in handy at odd hours, and she shares speculative poetry and flash fiction (and cat pictures) at patreon.com/richlayers.
Rachel Ayers
The Dryad's Books, fiction, issue 55, June 2021
Get to know Rachel...
Birthdate?
January 8
When did you start writing?
When I was four or five I began writing letters to my cousin, and by the time I was in grade school I was writing stories about magical cats and teleportation.
When and what and where did you first get published?
My alma mater, Pittsburg State University, has a literary magazine called Cow Creek Review, in which they included “The Brick Joke,” my romance story about a joke that is told over hours or days before the punch line.
Why do you write?
To stay sane.
Why do you write Science Fiction and/or Fantasy?
It's my home turf; I am more comfortable making up history than researching it.
Who is your favorite author? Your favorite story?
Some recent favorites are N.K. Jemisin, Ted Chiang, and Jacqueline Carey. Chiang's title story from the collection Breathless has haunted me since I read it.
What are you trying to say with your fiction?
Love each other.
If you could write your own epitaph, what would it say?
Over sea and under stone
Dusty now but not alone
Do you blog?
Sporadically; I'm more likely to be sharing cat pictures on my patreon!
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