Rachel Carter is the author of the So Close to You series with Harperteen. She graduated from the University of Vermont with a degree in English and Women's Studies, and she holds an MFA from Columbia University in nonfiction creative writing. She teaches creative writing at Columbia University, Champlain College, and Montclair State University, where she recently spent four years as a Visiting Professor of fiction. Her nonfiction work has appeared in The New Republic, The Faster Times, and Booktrib.com. She currently lives in Central Vermont and works as the Executive Director of the Green Mountain Book Festival and the Editorial Director for Onion River Press.
