Rachel Rosolina (she/her) has had fiction, nonfiction, photography, and poetry published in such outlets as Still: The Journal, Untelling, and Belt Magazine, as well as various anthologies. Her work explores nature, Appalachia, and the impossible. She has attended the Hindman Appalachian Writers’ Workshop, the Hub City Summer Intensive Workshop, and the Tremont Writers’ Workshop.

Rachel graduated from Berea College with a degree in English and a minor in Appalachian Studies and earned a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction from West Virginia University. She has held roles at various independent publishers, providing her with a full-spectrum understanding of publishing—editorial development at all levels, interior and cover design, marketing and publicity, acquisitions, and organizational sustainability.

Rachel serves on the Journal of Appalachian Studies editorial board and the Berea College Alumni Executive Council. She has also taught at West Virginia University and Berea College’s Brushy Fork Leadership Institute and has served as Senior Director of Connection & Communication for Appalshop.

Born and raised in East Tennessee, she currently lives in Bloomington, Indiana, with her husband, Casey, and a tiny cat. They (excluding the cat) have a marriage goal of visiting every continent together. Whenever possible, Rachel is reading, writing, or contemplating the eccentricities of life while hiking in the woods.