Rachel Schmidt, MA, BSN, RN

Rachel is a registered nurse, writer, and military spouse. She graduated from the University of Portland in Oregon as a Providence Scholar and began her career as a medical-surgical nurse in that same city. There, she served on multiple councils and as a charge nurse. Due to her family’s military connection, she later relocated to Ohio where she worked on a cardiac step-down unit before moving to Arkansas where she spent several years with a children’s hospital as an outpatient clinic float and then in the hospital’s outpatient hematology, oncology clinic and infusion center.

When her family was assigned overseas, Rachel paused her nursing career to travel and pursue her lifelong passion for writing. She began her master’s in writing at Johns Hopkins while still abroad. Back stateside and degree completed, she returned to nursing in the capacity of school nurse. She continues to write fiction, enjoying publications in several periodicals and volunteers as an assistant editor for an online literary magazine. In her spare time, she likes to be outside, trying her best to keep up with her children and springer spaniel, Maple.