Rachel Monroe

Bio

Rachel Monroe grew up in Richmond, Virginia. Since 2012 she’s been based in Marfa, Texas, where she is a contributing writer for the New Yorker. She has written about crime, communes, utopias, small towns, firefighters, guns, sperm donors, border issues, haunted houses, and motorcycles, among other things, for a number of publications. She hosted the BBC podcast Lost at Sea, about a missing fisheries observer and crimes on the high seas. She has been a finalist for a Livingston Award for Young Journalists and named as one of 56 women journalists everyone should read by New York Magazine. Her 2019 book, Savage Appetites: True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession was a New York Times Editor’s Choice and named a best book of the year by Esquire, the Chicago Tribune, and Jezebel. Her work has also been anthologized in Best American Travel Writing 2018 and Unspeakable Acts: True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit, and Obsession.