Rachel Weaver is a writer living and working in Louisville, Colorado. She has taught creative writing classes in a variety of settings including: eight week workshops through the Petersburg Alaska Public Library, as part of a five day glacier backpacking trip for Wild Women Workshops, through the Hospice Care Grief Center, through the Chautauqua Cultural Residency Program in Boulder, and at Boulder Community School of Integrated Studies. She also worked as a writing tutor in the Naropa University Writing Center.
Prior to attending Naropa University’s MFA program in Writing and Poetics, Rachel worked as a wildlife biologist in Alaska studying songbirds, raptors, and black and brown bears.
Rachel’s first novel, Nineteen-foot Tide, was represented by Jodie Rhodes Literary Agency. Excerpts from Nineteen-foot Tide, as well as her third novel-in-progress, Point of Direction were chosen to represent Naropa University in 2006, 2007, and 2008 in the Harcourt Brace Best New Voices in American Fiction contest. In 2006, she was awarded the Katie O’Brien Scholarship for Fiction and a position as the Writer-in-Residence at the Footpaths to Creativity Center in Portugal. The short story, “Walking the Night” was selected for publication in 2008 by the Ontario Review, but did not appear due to the editor, Raymond Smith’s untimely death. Past publications include Bombay Gin, Inside Passages, Fly Fishing New England, Blue Mesa Review and Alaska Women Speak as well as inclusion in the anthology, Material Sensitive to Light, Slickrock Press, 2005. Upcoming publications include The Gettysburg Review. In June 2009, Rachel was awarded an honorary mention in the New Millennium Fiction Contest. She is currently at work on her third novel.
