Rachel E. Bailey was born and raised in New York City and currently lives in New York State’s gorgeous Hudson Valley. Now, with a swanky new legal name—beetle bailey—and better-fitting pronouns, they've been a freelance everything, from copywriter to article writer. They've also worked in various retail and office jobs that have tried to, but haven’t quite, sucked the soul out of them. beetle has earned a bachelor of fine arts in advertising, with a focus on copywriting, and is most of the way toward earning a second bachelor’s in English, with a minor in creative writing. beetle has been published in Words 57, The Finger, The Stonesthrow Review, on Yahoo!Voices, and Amative Magazine, Writing.com 2014 Anthology, and has had two short plays—The Big Opening and Messenger—performed for stage and screen, respectively. They also won the 2015 T.M.I.dol story-slam with their monologue, The City.