Rachael S Morgan

Rachael S. Morgan is an award-winning fiction writer, screenwriter and creative producer, whose projects often straddle page and screen. A former musician and entertainment writer for a national women’s magazine, Rachael is a recipient of the Josephine Ulrick Literature Prize and the GREW Prize as well as several Varuna fellowships. She’s taught screenwriting for world-renowned New York Film Academy and is the author of Dead Famous - A Kat Alley Mystery (Daring Press 2023).

A voracious reader, who still checks the back of wardrobes for Narnia (just in case), Rachael grew up on film sets in London in the 80s—her family worked on Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Superman, Labyrinth, and more. She’s been fascinated by stories and how to breathe them into life, for as long as she can remember. Her film & television credits include Wanted; Mako Mermaids; The Timeshifters, and The Bachelor—a job which meant scouring the streets for cute boys to match up with cute girls. A tough job, but somebody had to do it.

Rachael has projects in development with several BAFTA and EMMY award-winning producers, and is in demand as a story consultant and script doctor. Her rom-com series, The Scoop, was Top 10 in the 2023 Page International Screenwriting Awards.

Rachael is committed to writing powerful, hilarious, female-led stories. She’s allergic to the phrase 'strong female lead’—give her complex, flawed, and messy any day—and is passionate about authenticity and storytelling, taking her philosophy from Anais Nin— “We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.” She currently resides in a cute city apartment, with books and daydreams for company (mostly dreams of being a pop-star, climbing mountains, and marrying Sam Heughan). She loves hot yoga, tattoos, the F word, and cheese, but not in that order. Cheese always comes first.