Rachel Can­tor was born in Hart­ford, Con­necti­cut, and raised in Rome. She worked for jazz fes­ti­vals in France and food fes­ti­vals in Aus­tralia before get­ting degrees in inter­na­tion­al devel­op­ment and fic­tion writ­ing. Her short sto­ries have appeared in The Paris Review, One Sto­ry, Keny­on Review, and oth­er pub­li­ca­tions. She lives in Brook­lyn, New York.