About

Rachel Grimm is a writer, professor, and mom in Cincinnati, Ohio. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Miami University and her BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis from Allegheny College, where she won the Ione Sandberg Shriber Young Writer Award. She is currently at work on a speculative fiction novel about how to find joy in a world that can feel like a literal dumpster fire.

Her creative and research interests include the contemporary novel and short story forms, hybrid and experimental storytelling, fabulism, identity literature, intersectional feminism, satire, environmentalism and ecofeminism, speculative fiction, assemblage theory, writing pedagogy, literary activism, and community education.

In the past, Rachel has taught high school English, taught creative writers around the world through The Real+Good Writer’s blog and classes, self-published how-to guides on writing and publishing, managed literary magazines, and given away 140+ free books in one single night to spread the joy of literature.