She has 4 children and a growing menagerie. She writes in an intimate style about the things and people that surround her. Rachel regularly performs at live literature events around the North West and has both poetry and reviews widely published online, in anthologies (the latest being Best of Manchester Poets vol 2) and in magazines. She won the Lennon Poet 2010 competition, awarded by Carol Ann Duffy, and enjoys facilitating school workshops. She is currently working on her first collection and poetry source material for use in schools and would love to hear from prospective publishers willing to offer HUGE sums of money in order to stop her from having to get a proper job. She dislikes talking about herself in the 3rd person.