Rachel studied acting at East 15 Acting School, after which she has done a little less acting but a lot more writing. She is currently working as a freelance writer and producer. She escaped the deepest darkest depths of middle England and having tried out London and New York for size currently resides in Glasgow, Scotland.

Current
Rachel is in development with her first musical 'The Gates' and is working on her second musical 'Miss Smith'. She is also writing her third collection of poetry Politics Post Postmodernism. She will publish her second collection of poems, 'Laughin' Lesbians Vol 2' late in 2008.

She also is the porducer for the text based arts organisation conFAB.

History
Rachel has been performing her poetry for the past seven years at a variety of locations across Britain and Europe from Brighton to Dundee to Dublin.

Venues include:
Glasgay! Arts Festival, Glasgow | Creatures, Manchester | Lyrical Lounge, London | Manchester, Mardigras | Angel Delight, Edinburgh | Ladyfest, London, Glasgow | Cherrybomb, Edinburgh | Pride Scotland | Stand Comedy Club, Edinburgh | Stand Comedy Club, Glasgow | Glass Bar, London | Southopia, London | Bigword, Edinburgh | Bigword, Glasgow | Dundee Alternative Arts Festival | ALAF Lesbian Arts Festival, Dublin | Spit-lit Literary Festival, London | Underword, Manchester | Per Verse, Manchester | conFAB, Glasgow | Kairos in Soho, London | Gingerbeer, London | Pride, Manchester | WIT, Wales | Pride, Newscastle | Tchai Ovna, Glasgow | Duke of York, Belfast | Sounding Out, Leicester | Quodos, Glasgow University | Kairos In Soho, London | Marlborough Theatre, Brighton | Brighton Pride | Museum of Scotland | Greenroom, Manchester | Boarders, Glasgow | Silencio, Edinburgh |

Other
Jackie Forster Memorial Award for Culture, Pride Awards 2006, for outstanding contribution to culture in Scotland.
Her poems and short stories have been published in: Chameleon, Nomad, Cutting Teeth, Citizen 32, Poetry Scotland, The Gay Read and Hidden City, Mookychick