Rebecca Hazelwood lives in south Louisiana, where she is a PhD student in English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Her essays have appeared in December, Anthropoid, Hobart, Still, and PANK. She has been a finalist for the Curt Johnson Prose Awards, and earned an honorable mention in the Robert and Adele Schiff Awards. She is currently writing a memoir about violence, truth, and the breakdown of a family.