Rachel is a teacher, writer, actor, and sometime aerialist living in Brooklyn, New York. She completed her MFA in Creative Writing at The New School, and her work has been published in the Los Angeles Times, the Washington PostCrab Creek Review, Off The Coast Poetry Journal, Postcard Poems and Prose, and Forage Poetry Journal.  She is working on her first book, a true crime/memoir.  Follow her (please) on Twitter @RaeRear.