To date, she has published fiction, poetry, and articles in a variety of nationally distributed publications including Odyssey Magazine, Interzone, the Konundrum Engine Literary Review, and Subterranean Online.

Rachel blogs about writing, politics, and daily musings at That Which Deranges the Senses. She also writes for the femist site Alas, a Blog, and for the blog of L. Timmel Duchamp's Aqueduct Press, Ambling Along the Aqueduct, which examines the intersections of feminism and science fiction.

Rachel is the submissions editor of PodCastle, the first audio fantasy magazine.

Rachel's maternal grandfather was an Orthodox Jew. Her paternal grandfather was a member of the KKK. Her great-uncle suffered from an addiction to milk, and her great-grandmother was afraid of grass. Among her relatives, she counts screen-writers, poets, physicists, mathematicians, librarians, and engineers.

Given her family background, Rachel begs tolerance for her occasional oddness.