Rachel Pastan is the author of the novels Alena, Lady of the Snakes, and This Side of Married. Her short fiction has appeared in The Georgia Review, Mademoiselle, The Threepenny Review, Prairie Schooner, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and many other places. Pastan is a member of the Core Faculty in Fiction at the Bennington Writing Seminars MFA program and lives outside of Philadelphia.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES

Eating the Canon
Christina Hardyment compiles a compendium of literary meals in "Pleasures of the Table: A Literary Anthology."...

Mona Simpson, “Middlemarch,” and the Anti-Marriage Plot
Marriage is neither an ending nor a beginning in "Off Keck Road." Instead, Mona Simpson let's it flicker at the edge of vision....

Not Only in the Dark
Rachel Pastan on Marjorie Sandor's anthology of eerie writing....
