Portrait of Rachel Micaela Tandoc Donalson

Rachel Micaela Tandoc Donalson

  • Asst Professor of Instruction at English, College of Liberal Arts

Biography

Rachel Tandoc Donalson is a writer and educator from the heart of the Sonoran Desert. Her writing delves into the folklore of her youth, betrayals of the body, and the people and places that thrive at the fringes of society. Her nonfiction work can be found in Prairie Schooner and Salt Hill Journal. She was Texas State University's L.D. and LaVerne Harrell Clark House Writer-in-Residence from 2023 to 2024.

​EDUCATION:
Master of Fine Arts, Creative Writing (Fiction) - Texas State University, 2023
Bachelor of Arts, English Literature - Arizona State University, 2020
Bachelor of Science, Supply Chain Management - Arizona State University, 2020

Research Interests

Mythology, Folklore, Autoethnography, Creative Nonfiction, Speculative Fiction