Author: Rachel Dempsey

Rachel Dempsey has written and directed over a dozen plays for numerous acclaimed theater organizations such as Imagination Stage and ArtStream. Her prose has won contests such as The Colorado Gold Rush Literary Awards, the Denver Women’s Press Club Emerging Writers Contest and the Writer's Digest Annual Writing Competition. Her short fiction appears in anthologies from Shacklebound Books, Brigids Gate Press, Timber Ghost Press and Twenty Bellows (Pushcart nominated, 2023). She holds a BFA in Drama and English from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, a Master’s degree in Journalism from Georgetown University and an MFA in Creative Writing from Regis in Denver where she currently lives with her husband and three daughters.

A Scary (But Good) Debut: An Interview with Author and RMFW Member Joy Jarrett

Posted on March 23, 2021March 19, 2021 by Rachel Dempsey

The sun is shining in that undeniably Colorado way, making it hard to imagine clouds exist. I’ve snagged a little table near the grass outside Panera’s—the same location author Joy Jarrett and I used to meet in-person with our RMFW critique group, a lifetime ago. It is the perfect congenial setting for a discussion about…

Time to Write

Posted on February 26, 2021February 25, 2021 by Rachel Dempsey

Back in November, I was poised at the starting line of my first NanoWriMo. Time to finish that novel I’d been chipping away at for almost two years. Then came the dreaded e-mail: there had been a confirmed case of COVID-19 at my middle daughter’s elementary school. Her class would be quarantining until ten days…