Rachael Fowler’s work has been published by The Literary Review, North American Review, Southern Humanities Review, Deep South Magazine, Prime Number Magazine, and Fugue. Her novella Woolf, Creature, Wave was named a finalist for The Big Moose Prize through Black Lawrence Press. In addition, she has been awarded funding through the Mississippi Arts Commission and residencies with Vermont Studio Center, Nocefresca, Yaddo, and The Studios at MASS MoCA.

She earned her PhD (Fiction) from the University of Southern Mississippi's Center for Writers where she is currently an Assistant Teaching Professor of English, Editor of Mississippi Review, and Coordinator of the Young Authors Academy.