Rachel Swaby is a freelance journalist. Her work has appeared in Wired, O, The Oprah Magazine, Runner’s World, New Yorker.com, Afar, and other publications. She is a senior editor at Longshot magazine, the editor-in-chief of The Connective: Issue 1, a former research editor at Wired, and a past presenter at Pop-Up magazine. She lives in Brooklyn.
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