Rachel May’s writing has been published in the New York Times, National Geographic, Condé Nast Traveler, LitHub, and Guernica, among others. Her most recent book, An American Quilt: Unfolding a Story of Family and Slavery (Pegasus Books, 2018), was favorably reviewed in the New Yorker, Publishers Weekly, Bitch Magazine. She’s now at work on a memoir and a biography.
Rachel May
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