Rachel J Fenton is a working-class writer living in Aotearoa New Zealand. Her work won the University of Plymouth Short Fiction Prize, the Auckland University of Technology Creative Writing Prize, came second in the Dundee International Book Prize, and was shortlisted for the Royal Society of New Zealand Manhire Prize for Science Writing and other prizes. Twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize, she is currently nominated for the Best Small Fictions 2020. Also known as Rae Joyce, she was awarded a Creative New Zealand arts grant to research, draw and write a graphic biography of Mary Taylor, Charlotte Brontë's best friend.