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Rachel Rear

Biography

Rachel Rear

Rachel Rear is a writer, teacher, actor and sometime aerialist living in Brooklyn, NY. She earned her BA at Rutgers University, her MA at Teachers College, Columbia University, and her MFA at The New School. She has been published in the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, the Huffington Post, Crab Creek Review, Off The Coast Poetry Journal and Ducts Webzine. She also hangs around Circus Warehouse in Queens, NY. Her first book is CATCH THE SPARROW, a true crime/memoir.

Rachel Rear

Books by Rachel Rear

Catch the Sparrow: A Search for a Sister and the Truth of Her Murder
by Rachel Rear - Memoir, Nonfiction, True Crime

Growing up, Rachel Rear knew the story of Stephanie Kupchynsky's disappearance. The beautiful violinist and teacher had fled an abusive relationship on Martha's Vineyard and made a new start for herself near Rochester, NY. She was in a relationship with a man she hoped to marry. But then, one morning, she was gone. Around Rochester --- a region that has spawned such serial killers as Arthur Shawcross and the “Double Initial” killer --- Stephanie's disappearance was just a familiar sort of news item. But Rachel had more reason than most to be haunted by this particular story of a missing woman: Rachel's mother had married Stephanie's father after the crime, and Rachel grew up in the shadow of her stepsister's legacy.