Rebecca Orchard studied classical music at the Peabody Conservatory before baking professionally for seven years. She now has her MFA in Fiction from Bowling Green State University and a PhD candidate from Florida State University. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Story, Passages North, Cimarron Review, The South Carolina Review, and elsewhere. Her work on the Voyager Golden Record has been profiled in The Guardian, BBC World Service NewsHour, and Atlas Obscura.