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Rachel Rueckert is an award-winning writer, editor, and teacher based in Boston. On a visit to Provincetown, Massachusetts, in 2015, she learned about the true events behind her debut novel, If the Tide Turns, and vowed to write the tale. If the Tide Turns is a true forbidden love story set 300 years ago in Cape Cod and the Caribbean (think The Scarlet Letter meets the Golden Age of Pirates). She returns to Cape Cod regularly for research and freedom in the shape of solace and continues to excavate fascinating real pirates—such as Mary Read and Anne Bonny—from the sands of history. Her historical novels are coming out in 2024 through Kensington Books.

Rachel holds an MFA from Columbia University and an M.Ed from Boston University. She is also the author of East Winds, a memoir showing her external and internal journeys to wrestle with what marriage means while backpacking through South America, Asia, and Europe as a millennial newlywed—unsure if she believes in marriage, let alone the lofty Mormon ideal of eternal marriage.

Rachel takes pleasure in unconventional journeys. She specializes in creative nonfiction, historical fiction, ghostwriting, and curriculum design. In addition, she co-founded KLEIO, a family story writing service.

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Last Name Pronunciation: Roo-curt (rhymes with two)
Agent: Kimberly Witherspoon at InkWell Management.