Education
- PhD, English, University of California, Santa Barbara
Biography
Rachel Borup holds a PhD in English from the University of California, Santa Barbara and teaches in the LEAP Program at the University of Utah. She is an alumna of the Tin House Writing Workshop, Aspen Summer Words, Squaw Valley Community of Writers, and the Chautauqua Institute. Her short story, Crash, was a finalist for the Florida Review's Editors' Award in Fiction. Other short stories of hers were finalists for the Colorado Review's Nelligan Prize, the Utah Original Writing Contest, and the New Orleans' Review's Walker Percy Prize. Michael Cunningham chose one of her short stories as a finalist for the Tennessee Williams LIterary Festival Fiction Contest. She facilitates the Literature and Medicine Discussion Group at the University of Utah Hospital and is working on a novel.