Rachel Bower

Rachel Bower is the author of two poetry collections and an academic book on literary letters. Her debut novel, It Comes from the River will be published by Bloomsbury in January 2025. She is currently working on a poetry collection about endangered insects. Rachel’s poems and stories have been widely published in literary magazines, including The White Review, Magma, The Rialto and Stand. She recently had a poem Highly Commended in the Ginkgo Prize 2023 and was shortlisted for the Best Poem of UK Landscape 2023. Rachel won The London Magazine Short Story Prize and the W&A Short Story Competition in 2020.