We’re thrilled to welcome Indie Next Pick author Rachel Yoder to celebrate her book, “Nightbitch,” on Tuesday, 1/31 at 6:30PM! A film adaptation of “Nightbitch” produced by Annapurna, directed by Marielle Heller, and starring Amy Adams will commence production in September 2022. Searchlight will distribute worldwide.

Selected as an Indie Next Pick in August 2021, Nightbitch has gone on to be named a best book of the year by Esquire and Vulture and recognized as a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Fiction, finalist for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, and shortlist for the McKitterick Prize. To date, Nightbitch has been translated into 13 languages.

Rachel is a graduate of the Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program and also holds an MFA in fiction from the University of Arizona. With Mark Polanzak, she is a founding editor of draft: the journal of process.

Rachel grew up in a Mennonite community in the Appalachian foothills of eastern Ohio and now lives in Iowa City.

ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS of SUMMER 2021 according to Time Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, Nylon, Glamour, Harper’s Bazaar, the Chicago Tribune, Business Insider, Bustle, Lit Hub, Book Riot, The Chicago Review of Books, Thrillist, The Millions, Amazon, and more…

Named a Best Book of the Year by Esquire and Vulture. Finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Fiction. Finalist for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. Shortlisted for the McKitterick Prize. Indie Next Pick for August 2021