Rachel Kirkwood

RACHEL KIRKWOOD {[email protected]} is a PhD candidate in English literature at Stanford University studying twentieth-to twenty￾first-century American literature. She received a master’s degree in English at Stanford in 2014, and graduated summa cum laude from Brigham Young University in 2012 with a degree in English literature and a minor in women’s studies. Her current research focuses on the intersection of contemporary autobiographical fiction, popular genre, and authorial brand management.