In Junior High School Rachel was determined to be the best artist in her class. She found Japanese manga, and intently studied her favourites; filling countless sketchbooks with her own manga-style comics. Rachel’s art was published in two consecutive issues of The Cable Went Out, an experimental book about art students on “the threshold of adulthood” by art teacher Jeremy Wright.

Rachel was unable to take extra-curricular art classes until the last year of her High School education, but was supported and guided by her instructors during regular classes. She fell in love with the award-winning comic Strangers in Paradise, and studied it with great interest and heart. Rachel started doing her first online comic, Fanfare in her Junior year of High School, and started a strict regimen of drawing for four hours a day. Her art improved in leaps and bounds over the two years she created the comic.

Still intent on doing comics, but needing to stay on the West coast for studies, Rachel enrolled at The Art Institute of California San Diego in January 2004. In Fall 2006, Rachel interned at Top Cow for three months as a production intern. She graduated in December 2006 with her Bachelors of Science in Media Arts and Animation.

In October 2006, Rachel was one of four recipient of the first annual Women Webcomickers Grant NAN, presented by comic veteran Lea Hernandez.

Rachel currently lives in San Diego with her fiance, Mike; attempting to draw comics and press buttons for a living. She does some freelance illustration and web design work in her spare time, and does her best to attend several comic conventions each year. Rachel is currently working on two online comics: Intentionally Left Blank and Primary, both hosted on her website Poseur Ink.