Rachel Zarrow is a writer living in San Francisco. She attended Stanford for undergrad and received her MFA in Fiction from UC Riverside Palm Desert. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The San Francisco Chronicle, Electric Literature, The Atlantic, BUST, Bon Appétit, Epiphany Zine, and The Coachella Review. She focuses on fiction and creative nonfiction and is currently at work on her first novel. 

Rachel has experience coaching high school writers, as well as writers of all ages, and loves helping students articulate themselves clearly. She believes in a highly collaborative process of assisting writers as they translate their ideas into essays, short stories, and novels.