Short Author Biography Rachel Gathercole

Rachel Gathercole was born in Zaragoza, Spain, and spent roughly half of her childhood in a small Kansas town and the other half in the fast-paced metropolis of Miami, Florida.  Educated in some of America’s best public schools, she never expected to be a homeschooler, but she always knew she would be a writer.

Today, as the mother of three children, she has been homeschooling for ten years and is respected as an author of many informative articles and essays that cut through stereotypes and misconception and shed new light on homeschooling, parenting, and children.  Her articles have appeared in various national and local publications, including as cover stories in Mothering, Life Learning, and other magazines.

A trusted member of the homeschooling community, Rachel has interviewed hundreds of homeschooling parents and children across the United States and Canada, taught writing classes to homeschoolers for several years, and served as a co-leader of her local home educators’ association.  She holds a diploma from the New World School of the Arts and a Bachelor of Arts with distinction from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and now lives with her husband and children in North Carolina.