Rachael has written three full length stage plays: 'Chickens Don't Fly' (Writers' Guild Playwrights' Progress Award and Playwrights' Studio Scotland Writer's Bursary 2014), 'The Lemon Princess' (West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds, 2005), and 'Storeys' (Finborough Theatre, London 2000). She's also written numerous short plays (Battersea Arts Centre, Arcola Theatre, Liverpool Everyman, Southwark Playhouse, Soho Theatre), three stage plays for young people and three BBC radio plays. Her short stories have been published in the 'Shoe Fly Baby: the Asham Award anthology', 'Shorts 5: the Macallan/Scotland on Sunday Short Story Collection' and 'Far Off Places' magazine. She is also a translator of drama from French, German and Spanish (winner of the Gate Theatre Translation Award 2004). She is currently seeking representation for her first novel, about the heroin trade.