Rachel Parker writes at the place where literature meets the science of being human.

 

Her fiction traces the quiet tensions of ordinary life and the versions of ourselves we're still becoming—the moments of recognition, rupture, and quiet transformation. Her essays, published on Substack as Fragments of Humanity, explore the intersection of literature and psychology, examining how fiction captures truths about attachment, grief, and attention that science is only beginning to confirm. Across both, her work is drawn to the same question: what do our stories—the ones we read and the ones we live—reveal about who we really are?

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Her writing has appeared in The Maine Review, River Teeth, Penstricken, Beyond Words Magazine, and Anomaly Poetry. Most recently, her flash piece, The Shed, appeared in The Maine Review's Issue 11.2.

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Rachel is currently at work on her first novel, The Bridge Thread.

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She lives in Delaware with her husband, Dustin, and their two children, where the shifting seasons of the woods around her home serve as both backdrop and muse. She is a member of the Rehoboth Beach Writers Guild and an alumna of Lauren Grodstein's Paris Writers Workshop.

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When she's not writing, she's trail running, collaborating with her husband on entrepreneurial ventures, or sitting with a dream journal before anyone else is awake.