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Rachel Allen is an Appalachian writer, journalist, and memoirist. Raised in the mountains outside of Asheville, NC, she cut her teeth in professional writing via investigative journalism, then fell backwards into a marketing career that took her all over the world and resulted in her writing for some of the biggest (and smallest) names in both the for-profit and non-profit sectors. During this time she also ghostwrote and edited over a dozen books, as well as writing her first book under her own name, Use Your Words. She now writes essays, investigative podcasts, and nonfiction, including her upcoming memoir, Batshit.