Rachael Hanel is associate professor of creative nonfiction and journalism at Minnesota State University, Mankato.
Her essays have been published in print and online in the anthology Love and Profanity: A Collection of True, Tortured, Wild, Hilarious, Concise, and Intense Tales of Teenage Life
Slag Glass City
Midwestern Gothic
WLA: War, Literature, and the Arts
The Bellingham Review; and New Delta Review..
Her book We\'ll Be the Last Ones to Let You Down: Memoir of a Gravedigger\'s Daughter, also from the University of Minnesota Press, was a finalist for a Minnesota Book Award.
Rachael Hanel is associate professor of creative nonfiction and journalism at Minnesota State University, Mankato