About Rachelle
Rachelle grew up on an acreage outside of Edmonton, Alberta. When she wasn’t riding horses, playing with her 
dogs, and climbing trees, she was writing stories, which mostly revolved around horses, dogs, and tree-climbing, and rarely contained a speck of plot.
Though she always liked to write, Rachelle didn’t actually dream of being a writer. She did, however, ponder several career paths throughout her youth, including Santa (short-lived), Veterinarian, and Broadway Actress (she particularly coveted a role in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat and can still recite every colour in said coat, from ochre to lemon).
When she finished high school, however, Rachelle decided to simply focus on saving the world. Conservation biology, she decided, was her post-secondary path to success. She soon realized, however, that conservation biology also required her to pass organic chemistry and stay awake during Soils 101. She quickly chose a new path to success—one that took her to the west coast and allowed her to do homework at the beach. Majoring in both environmental studies and creative writing, Rachelle began to write stories again. And ever so slowly, these stories began to contain plots. After her undergraduate degree, Rachelle went on to do a Masters degree in creative writing at the University of British Columbia. She still calls Vancouver home.
When she’s not writing, Rachelle is usually running or cycling, learning to play the fiddle, or planning adventures to far-flung places. Her travels have seen her tree-climbing in a Costa Rican rainforest, running from poisonous ants in Venezuela, and searching for pygmy elephants in Malaysian Borneo, among other adventures (including the one in which the tropical bug got stuck in her ear canal). Every exploit—delightful or disastrous—eventually finds its way into her writing. She is currently dreaming of an Arctic expedition.
