I'm Rachel

I'm a writer and editor living in Takoma Park, Maryland with my husband and son. I write for publications like The Nation, Virginia Quarterly Review, Bookforum, New Republic, Pitchfork, Hazlitt, Rolling Stone, the Poetry Foundation. Currently, I teach a nonfiction writing course at Catapult. I also used to be a contributor at Jezebel. 

I have a B.A. from the College of William and Mary and an M.A. in Literature from the George Washington University. I am, and will be in perpetuity, ABD at the University of Maryland, College Park, where I studied Victorian literature.

My book, TOO MUCH: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today, from Grand Central Publishing, hit bookstores on February 25, 2020. It laces cultural criticism, Victorian literature, and storytelling together to explore how culture corsets women's bodies, souls, and sexualities—and how we might finally undo the strings. You can order it here and read more about it on my Book page.