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Rachel Swearingen’s stories have appeared in Missouri Review, Kenyon Review, Agni, American Short Fiction, and elsewhere. Recipient of the 2015 Missouri Review Jeffrey E. Smith Editor’s Prize, a 2012 Rona Jaffe Writer’s Award, and the 2011 Mississippi Review Prize in Fiction, she lives in Minneapolis.
Portrait by Mary Whalen
Rachel Swearingen worked in the Heyward studio.
The Lodge Annex, a wing on the west side of the men’s dormitory (The Lodge), was completed in 1926. Initially intended as an apartment for a caretaker, the space was soon repurposed as a live-in studio for writers. In recognition of a major endowment gift from the DuBose and Dorothy Heyward Foundation, Lodge Annex was…