Hi! I’m Rachel. Though I’m not much of a hat person, I wear many hats at work. I’m a writer, creative writing instructor, copywriter, and branding professional, assuming we can all agree that bathrobes are the attire of a modern-day professional.
When I’m not playing with words, I can be found playing with my dogs, cooking, painting, or taking a polar bear plunge.
I live in San Francisco, where I sometimes enjoy the views, but more often the fog. I frequently contribute book reviews to the San Francisco Chronicle, and I’m a volunteer with Empowerment Avenue. To keep up with my latest reading recs or musings on Lil Nas X, click here.
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Education:
MFA Creative Writing,
UC Riverside Palm Desert 2019
BA Sociology, Minor Italian,
Stanford University 2013
Represented by Jamie Carr
of the Book Group
The Dog Days (Fiction)
Book review: Spirits of San Francisco
Book review: At the Edge of the Haight
Book review: The Nature of Fragile Things
Book review: Vera
10 artists who shed light on mass incarceration
Exhibits convey incarcerated artists’ spirit: ‘No matter what I did … there’s beauty inside me’
Book review: The Arbornaut
Book review: Stolen Focus
Bay Area shops ready to celebrate Independent Bookstore Day in person again this year
Wild Zebras (Fiction)
The Light-Bulb Eater Next Door