Rachel Barenbaum’s second novel, Atomic Anna, has received starred reviews from Kirkus and Publishers Weekly. She is also the author of A Bend in the Stars, a New York Times Summer Reading Selection and a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection. Her writing has appeared in the LA Review of Books, Tel Aviv Review of Books, LitHub, and more. She is the founder/host of Debut Spotlight and has degrees from Harvard University in Business and Literature and Philosophy.