Rachel Carter is the author of the So Close to You series with Harperteen. She graduated from the University of Vermont with a degree in English and Women's Studies, and she holds an MFA from Columbia University in nonfiction creative writing. She has taught creative writing at Columbia University, Champlain College, and Montclair State University, where she recently spent four years as a Visiting Professor of fiction. She currently teaches for the University of Nebraska MFA program, where she specializes in young adult fiction. Her nonfiction work has appeared in The New Republic, The Faster Times, and Booktrib.com. She currently lives in Central Vermont and works as the Editorial Director for Onion River Press.