Rachael K. Jones is an American writer and editor of speculative fiction. Several of her stories have been nominated for the genre's highest awards.
Biography.
Jones currently works as a speech-language pathologist, working with special education children with communication disorders. She has degrees in English and Speech-Language Pathology. A former resident of Athens, Georgia, along with her husband Jason, she currently lives in Beaverton, Oregon.
Writing career.
First published in 2013, Jones has written dozens of speculative fiction short stories. Jones' Eugie Award-winning story, "The Sound of Children Screaming", published in the October 2023 issue of "Nightmare", drew inspiration from a lockdown event that happened after hours at her school. The title is derived from a caption accompanying a news video of the Uvalde school shooting reading, "the sound of children screaming has been removed."
Jones edited (with Graeme Dunlop) "PodCastle - The Fantasy Fiction Podcast" from April 2015 to April 2016. She was also the submissions editor for Escape Pod.