Rachel Beanland is the author of the forthcoming novel, THE HOUSE IS ON FIRE, which will be published by Simon & Schuster in April 2023. Her debut novel, FLORENCE ADLER SWIMS FOREVER, received the 2020 National Jewish Book Award for Debut Fiction (Greenberg Prize) and has been published or is forthcoming in nine countries. She is a graduate of the University of South Carolina and received her MFA in creative writing from Virginia Commonwealth University. She lives in Richmond, Virginia with her family.