Rachel León (she/they) is a writer, editor, and social worker. She serves as Managing Director for Chicago Review of Books and Fiction Director for Arcturus. Her work has appeared in The Rumpus, Catapult, LA Review of Books, BOMB Magazine, Brooklyn Rail, Foglifter, Electric Literature, The Millions, Split Lip Magazine, Publishers Weekly, CRAFT, the Ploughshares blog, and elsewhere.
Her writing has been supported by Tin House’s Summer Workshop, StoryStudio Chicago’s Storyboard, Stony Brook University’s BookEnds program, and the Illinois Arts Council.
Rachel León is the editor of The Rockford Anthology, forthcoming from Belt Publishing in October 2025, and the author of the novel, How We See the Gray, forthcoming from Curbstone in 2026.