Writer and Editor 

Rachel Gallaher is an arts and lifestyle writer and editor living in Seattle, Washington. Her work has appeared in the following publications: City Arts, Seattle Bride, Seattle Homes & Lifestyles, Kinfolk, Surface, the Seattle Times, Alaska Airlines' Beyond, University of Washington magazine, and the award-winning GRAY (where she is currently Deputy Editor). She is also a major theater and dance critic in Seattle, writing hundreds of reviews of local, national, and international performing arts companies.

In 2008 Rachel won the Nature of Words Rising Star Creative Writing Competition in the ages 19-25 Fiction category for her story "The Circus." She has received scholarships to retreats through the prestigious Hedgebrook organization, and has two poems published in the 2008 and 2009 editions of the University of Washington's InterSECTIONS interdisciplinary journal. She is also a recipient of the 2015 Folio Magazine 30 Under 30 Award and received the Honorable Mention award in the Arts & Entertainment category of the Society for Features Journalism 2020 Excellence in Features awards for her 2019 cover story “A Modern Medici.”

Rachel’s story “Voice of Resistance,” won the first-place prize in the Society of Professional Journalists Region 10 Excellence in Journalism contest in the category of Magazines: Arts & Culture.

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Email: rachelcgallaher@gmail.com or rachel@graymag.com