Rachel O'Neill is a writer, filmmaker and artist based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara/Kāpiti Coast. Their debut book One Human in Height (Hue & Cry Press, 2013) was followed by Requiem for a Fruit (We Are Babies Press, 2021). After participating in the 2017 Aotearoa Short Film Lab, Rachel received a SEED Grant for feature film development and held an Emerging Writers Residency at the Michael King Writers Centre. Recent writing appears in Sweet Mammalian, Stasis Journal, Ōrongohau | Best New Zealand Poems 2019 and Out Here: An Anthology of Takatāpui and LGBTQIA+ Writers from Aotearoa (ed. by Chris Tse and Emma Barnes, AUP, 2021).

Verb Festival 2022 Appearances
Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life, Sat 5 Nov, 7:15pm (LitCrawl).