Rachel M. Harper

Novelist / Poet / Essayist

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What You Don’t Know

April 6, 2016April 6, 2016 / Rachel Harper / 1 Comment

“You write from what you know, but you write into what you don’t know.”

— Grace Paley

The Wonders of Play

February 7, 2014April 6, 2016 / Rachel Harper / Leave a comment

“Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.”

— Gwendolyn Brooks

The Past is Beautiful

May 6, 2013April 6, 2016 / Rachel Harper / 1 Comment

“The past is beautiful because one never realizes an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.”

— Virginia Woolf

Where Writers Live

February 2, 2012April 6, 2016 / Rachel Harper / Leave a comment

“I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”

— Neil Gaiman

Freedom

April 6, 2007April 6, 2016 / Rachel Harper / Leave a comment

“When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.”

— Ralph Ellison

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About Rachel


Rachel Harper is the author of two novels, Brass Ankle Blues, and This Side of Providence, and several screenplays. She has received fellowships from the Corporation of Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and the R.I. State Council on the Arts. Harper is on the faculty at Spalding University’s brief-residency MFA in Writing Program.

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  • What You Don’t Know
  • New Novel – Now Available
  • Excerpt – This Side of Providence
  • Artist Colonies: The Value of Lost Time
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