Rachel Seiffert has published five novels, Once The Deed Is Done, A Boy in Winter, The Dark Room, Afterwards, and The Walk Home, and one collection of short stories, Field Study.  Her novels have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Dublin/IMPAC Award, and longlisted three times for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, most recently in 2018.  She has also received awards from the American Society of Arts and Letters and the Association of Jewish Libraries and was named one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists.

Rachel teaches writing in a wide variety of settings – at universities in the UK, Europe and the US; with the Arvon Foundation; as a Royal Literary Fund Fellow; and as a Writer in Residence with First Story in London secondary schools.