Saved As A Draft Episode 15

Rachel Tribble is a multi-media artist and writer whose award-winning watercolor and oil paintings are celebrated for their quiet power, exploring themes of serenity, nature, and the unseen. Her storytelling echoes this same sense of stillness and depth—inviting readers into ethereal, otherworldly spaces that resonate long after the final word.

Born and raised in New York City, Rachel later became involved with the Indigenous community in the Upper Midwest, an experience that continues to inform her creative work. A lifelong environmental advocate, she began her career presenting multimedia installations and performance art in alternative venues—including rock nightclubs—at the rise of the EDM movement. These early projects illuminated the natural world while raising esoteric and social questions.

Her paintings caught the attention of the Walt Disney Company, and her work for the EPCOT International Flower and Garden Festival poster earned the IFEA Gold Pinnacle Award for the company.

Rachel’s personal fascination with books, papers, thread, vintage finds, and metalwork led her to create hand-bound folios and small books—works of art in their own right. When the COVID-19 pandemic temporarily closed her studio, she turned her focus toward writing and hand-crafted multimedia work.

Most recently, Rachel’s writing has won the Lemon Jelly Press Flash Fiction Competition. Her work has been recognized on Substack, where she has repeatedly appeared on the Rising in Fiction Top 100 list—climbing as high as #24—and has won Erica Drayton’s weekly Top in Fiction three times for her microfiction and serialized short works.