About

Rachel Kolb is a writer whose work explores communication, language, and disability as central components of human experience. A graduate of Stanford University, she was the first signing deaf Rhodes scholar at Oxford before receiving her Ph.D. in English literature from Emory University and then completing a junior fellowship in the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. She has been published in The New York Times and The Atlantic, among other venues, and she is the author of the forthcoming memoir Articulate (Ecco Press).

In her free time, Rachel is a lover of grand mountain vistas, hikes and bike rides, long conversations, beagles, unexpected new ideas in books, and spicy food.

Selected links to essays, multimedia projects, and other publications are available through this site.