Rachel Kambury is a writer, novelist, and editor with a special interest in war and military literature and history.

Born and raised in Oregon, Rachel self-published her first World War II novel, Gravel, in 2009—two months before she graduated high school. She earned a BA in literature from Eugene Lang College in 2013 and studied war history at the American University of Paris.

Since beginning her publishing career in 2016, Rachel has worked with an incredible range of award-winning and bestselling authors, including Leila Philip, Haben Girma, Shea Serrano, Barbara Ehrenreich, Admiral William H. McRaven, Patrick Wyman, Alyssa Mastromonaco, Senator Tammy Duckworth, Casey Tanner, Emma Specter, Arianna Rebolini, TikTok sensations “The Old Gays,” and many more. As an editor, Rachel is omnivorously and inexhaustibly curious about most things, but especially history, natural science, social justice, pop culture, humor, and previously unsung-hero narratives.

Rachel’s work has appeared in The Wrath-Bearing Tree, Consequence Magazine, The Quivering Pen, the United States World War I Centennial Commission, and the Columbia Journal. Her essay, “My First War Novel” is featured in the Military Writers Guild anthology Why We Write: Craft Essays on Writing War (2019), and her essay “War Without Allegory: World War I, Tolkien, and The Lord of the Rings” is featured in the collection Beyond Their Limits of Longing: Contemporary Writers and Veterans Reflect on the Lingering Stories of World War I.

She lives and works in New York City.

Email: rkambury@gmail.com