Photo By: Eric J. Moore
Rachel B. Moore earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Lesley University in 2012.
Her work appears in the collection Debs: Four Women Writers on the Verge, BorderSenses, The Lindenwood Review (Issue 11), The Stonecoast Review (Issue 15), the Crack The Spine “The Year” Anthology, Peatsmoke Journal (Spring 2022) and in MIDLVLMAG.
Rachel participated in Narrative Magazine's San Francisco writer's workshop in January 2014, the Elk River Writer's Workshop in October 2015, August 2021, 2022 and 2023, the ZYZZYVA short fiction workshop in 2019 and the Kenyon Review Writer's Workshop in July of 2018 and June of 2019.
In June of 2017, Rachel was selected to participate in the Lit Camp Basement Series, reading an excerpt of her travel writing on stage alongside several other emerging writers.
In October 2023, she participated in San Francisco’s long-standing literary festival, Litquake, at an event entitled, We (Heart) San Francisco.
Her popular San Francisco public transit blog, Fog City Notes, is frequently featured on SFist and Muni Diaries, and she has performed excerpts from the blog live on stage, in several Muni Diaries variety shows. Rachel is also co-founder of City Writer's Club, a writing group founded in 2016.
Rachel's literary obsessions include disappearances of all kinds, missing people, architecture, travel and displacement/disconnection.
Her writing is inspired by her work and travel in Cuba, Central and South America, the fluidity of language and identity and her interest in immigrant communities around the world. She is currently working on a novel and a collection of Creative Non-Fiction pieces.