Rachel is a writer and the hostess of the Wine and Pine reading series, held monthly-ish at Ten Degrees Bar. 

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She was the recipient of the Albertina Tholakele Dube Scholarship for Young Writers at the 2021 Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference and also attended The Stinging Fly Summer School in 2023. She participated in The Writers’ Institute at CUNY’s Graduate Center in 2024-2025.

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Rachel holds an MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts, where she was the Editor-in-Chief for Issue 58 of Columbia Journal printed in association with Ugly Duckling Presse and taught a CA/T Community Class (CCC). She concurrently earned an MSt at the University of Oxford, Kellogg College. She spent over seven years working in independent publishing, including W. W. Norton, Grove Atlantic, and Feminist Press.

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Originally from New York's Hudson Valley, Rachel now lives between London and Manhattan where she writes full-time. She is at work on her debut romance novel.

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She is represented by Julie Finidori at Aevitas Creative Management UK.

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Photo Credit: Abi Lieff