Rachel Rivera is a vocalist, sound healer, preschool and elementary general music teacher, and writer located in Southern Maine. She holds an MFA in creative writing and a BM in opera performance. Her main focus in writing is children's, middle-grade, and young adult fiction. A lover of wildlife and the outdoors, Rachel takes inspiration from the world's natural beauty to write her stories. She loves fantasy and incorporates magic in everything she writes, using fallen trees as portals to other worlds. When she is not writing, Rachel can be found reading, singing, tending to her many plants, and walking with her dogs. Rachel Rivera lives in southern Maine and grew up exploring the many parks there.