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Book Jacket Bio for The Benningdon-Crank Nervous Hospital
Rachel Corday has won the Iowa Woman prize for her short story, “Island
B”, the Southwest PEN contest for “Nine O’Clock Class”, and has published
in the award-winning journal, Negative Capability. Her novel of the South,
The Summertime of Baily Lowell was published in 2003 and received extraordinary
reviews. She is a Certified Expressive Arts Therapist and her work in relation
to biologically-based brain disorders have been read nationally. She is
producer and director of the video, Psychosis: The Inner Experience which
won a five-star rating by the National Association of Libraries.
Rachel lives on the island of Moloka’i in Hawai’i and was appointed by the
Governor in 2005 to the Hawai’i State Council for Independent Living. She
is also an active member of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI)
where she has served both statewide and locally since 1987.
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