About


Rachel Grimm is a writer, professor, and mom in Cincinnati, Ohio. She teaches writing at the University of Cincinnati Clermont and is passionate about empowering writers with their work. She is currently at work on a speculative fiction novel about how to find joy in a world that can feel like a literal dumpster fire, the first pages of which were recently honored as runner-up by the SCMF-SWF Ohio Writers Scholarship. She also runs “write here in cincinnati,” a Greater Cincinnati creative writing and literary events monthly community newsletter.

Rachel earned her Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Miami University, and her Bachelor of Arts in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis from Allegheny College. Her creative and pedagogical work has earned awards and honors including the Outstanding Graduate Student Award, a nomination for the College of Arts and Sciences Graduate Student Teaching Award, and the Ione Sandberg Shriber Young Writer Award.

She has taught high school, collegiate, and adult writers for eight years and has over a decade of experience cultivating writing communities in a variety of roles, including serving as an editor of literary magazines, organizing literary events that unite local and community organizations with the college, and fostering literary learning in the online space through a popular writing blog with international reach.

Rachel’s creative and research interests include contemporary novel and short story forms, hybrid and experimental storytelling, fabulism, identity literature, intersectional feminism, satire, environmentalism and ecofeminism, speculative fiction, assemblage theory, writing pedagogy, literary activism, and community education.