Rachel Nussbaum is a fiction writer and poet from the Big Island of Hawaii. Her short stories and poems have been featured in multiple horror and science fiction anthologies. Rachel likes her coffee at all times of the day, has way too many house plants, and hopes one day to write and illustrate her own novels and comic books.

Someone once told me there’s an old Buddhist curse of an interesting life. My family and I have been both cursed, and blessed. My family has survived health disasters, homelessness, financial destitution, and family abandonment worthy of any day time soap drama. Yet throughout I have learned that the most important thing of all is to never give up, and never stop loving the ones closest to my heart. My family. I’m a born and raised native Florida, oldest of three siblings to a loving mother and father. I’m a writer of dark fiction, fantasy, horror, comedy, and music. I am an artist of words, scribing thought and emotion in the forms and styles that come most natural. Currently residing in South Florida.