Rachel Weaver is a writer and editor living and working in Louisville, Colorado. She has taught creative writing classes in a variety of settings including: the Petersburg Alaska Public Library, on a glacier backpacking trip for Wild Women Workshops, the Hospice Care Grief Center, 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 completing her MFA in Writing and Poetics at Naropa University, Rachel worked as a wildlife biologist in Alaska studying songbirds, raptors, and black and brown bears.
Rachel is represented by Don Congdon & Associates Literary Agency. Excerpts from her first novel, 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. In June 2009, Rachel was awarded an honorary mention in the New Millennium Fiction Contest. Publications include The Ontario Review, Gettysburg Review, Blue Mesa Review, Bombay Gin, Inside Passages, Fly Fishing New England, and Alaska Women Speak.
