Hello! I'm Rachel. I'm 20 years old and reside in a small town in Wisconsin. I am currently attending the University of Wisconsin-Madison and preparing to major in Communicative Sciences and Disorders. 
I have needed creative outlets all my life and I've found solace knee-deep in sketchbooks, journals, and Word documents. It wasn't until I graduated from high school that words starting reworking my psyche, leaving me frantic until I could draw up the worlds stirring in my mind.

"I hope I can make you feel something with my words
because if you don't, they are empty.
And I hope you can connect to these names that I write bodies and souls and worlds for
because if you don't, they will be forgotten. 
And if the universes in my mind are never solidified and challenged and shaped into something beautiful or tragic or memorable
I just might lose myself.
I use so much of myself to write
because story is what I am made of."
-Rachel Staveness xx