ABOUT ME
Rachel Howard is a writer and journalist. Her first book, The Lost Night, a memoir about the emotional aftermath of her father’s unsolved murder, was published to acclaim in 2005. She is currently finishing a novel. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, O, the Oprah Magazine, San Francisco Magazine, the Village Voice, Dance Magazine, and other publications. She received her MFA in fiction from Warren Wilson College in 2009. She currently teaches creative writing through Stanford Continuing Studies and the San Francisco Writers Grotto, where she is a member.
In another life, Rachel would now be teaching kids how to dance and spin flags. In high school, she was garnering lackluster grades and planning to pursue a career as a color guard instructor when she spotted a statewide writing contest sponsored by UC Santa Barbara’s College of Creative Studies. She won and was petitioned in to the program.
Beginning in 2003, Rachel covered the flourishing Bay Area dance scene for the San Francisco Chronicle, serving as chief dance correspondent from 2006 to 2009. She began her journalism career as a staff arts writer for the Santa Barbara Independent and later the Orange County Register. From 2001 to 2003 she served as the dance critic of the San Francisco Examiner. She has twice served as a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts’ dance division.
Rachel’s two childhood loves were ballet and books. Yes, she did dance as a child, but no, as you might surmise from the knock-kneed photo of her in the upper right corner of this site, she was not particularly talented at it.
Mailing address:
Rachel Howard
SF Writers Grotto
490 2nd St., Suite 200
San Francisco CA 94107
