RACHEL YODER lives in Iowa City, Iowa. She recently graduated from the nonfiction-writing program at the University of Iowa and now writes about shoes for Nordstrom. Her piece “Some Really Disgusting Essays about Love” is forthcoming in YOU: An Anthology of Essays in the Second Person.

Awkward Walks With Unavailable Men

by Rachel Yoder, October 2011 (Issue 430)

I Want To Forgive Everyone, Trousers

by Rachel Yoder, May 2008 (Issue 389)