Rachel May is the author of four books, including An American Quilt: Unfolding a Story of Family and Slavery, (Pegasus Books, 2018), which was favorably reviewed in The New Yorker, Publisher's Weekly, Booklist (starred), and elsewhere, as well as Quilting with a Modern Slant, a Library Journal and Amazon Best Book of 2014. Her work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in The New York Times, Outside, National Geographic, Condé Nast Traveler, LitHub, The Millions, Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Volta, and LARB, among others. She's been a resident and fellow at The Vermont Studio Center, the VCCA, and The Millay Colony, and is an Associate Professor of English at Northern Michigan University.