Rachel Rose

A former fellow at The University of Iowa’s International Writing Program, she was Poet Laureate of Vancouver from 2014-2017. Her work received a 2014 and 2016 Pushcart Prize and her short fiction also won the Bronwen Wallace Award from The Writers’ Trust. Inspired by Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Rachel's debut novel, The Scarlet Daughter, is forthcoming from Blackstone in the US and Douglas & McIntyre in Canada. 

In her free time, she writes for the Substack magazine Desperate Writer, and can also be found walking the woods or beaches around Vancouver or discussing books with her daring and delightful book club, Double Trouble.

Source: https://www.rachelrose.ca/about