Rachel Rose (born September 10, 1970) is a Canadian/American poet, essayist and short story writer. She has published two collections of poetry, Giving My Body to Science and Notes on Arrival and Departure. Her poems, essays and short stories have been published in literary magazines and anthologies in Canada and the United States.
She grew up on Hornby Island (British Columbia), and in Vancouver, Anacortes and Seattle. In the mid-1990s, she lived and worked in Japan for a year. She's worked as a medical secretary, ESL teacher and freelance writer. She lives with her partner and three children in Vancouver, where she is the poetry and lyric prose mentor in The Writer's Studio at Simon Fraser University.
Letters to a Young Mother Who Writes (in Double Lives: Writing and Motherhood, edited by Shannon Cowan, Fiona Tinwei Lam and Cathy Stonehouse, 2008, McGill/Queens University Press)
A Tale of Two Mommies (in Between Interruptions: 30 Women Tell the Truth about Motherhood, edited by Cori Howard, 2009, Key Porter Books)
Short stories
Sundays (in Hot & Bothered, edited by Karen X. Tulchinsky, 1998, Arsenal Pulp Press)
Want, This Magazine, May/June 1999
The Glass Eye, The Alaska Quarterly Review, Vol 24, No. 3&4 (Fall and Winter 2007)
Anthologies
Uncharted Lines: Poems from the Journal of the American Medical Association (1998) Ten Speed Press
In Fine Form: The Canadian Book of Form Poetry (2005) Polestar
White Ink: Poems on Mothers and Motherhood (2007) York University
Letters to the World: Poems from the Wom-po Listserv (2008) Red Hen Press
Open Wide A Wilderness: Canadian Nature Poems (2009) Wilfrid Laurier University Press