Rachel Bennett Steury is originally from Lorain, Ohio and now splits her time between Hawaii, California, and Indiana. She and her husband foster a thriving conservation habitat in the Midwest for all manner of wandering wildlife. She is “Aunt Rae” to more than forty young people in a big working-class family in the industrial heartland. Rachel specializes in communications for non-profit clients and supports disaster response and relief efforts at the local, state and national level.

An alum of the University of Massachusetts-Amherst Labor Center, Indiana University Labor Studies Division and the Indiana Institute of Technology College of Business, Rachel is a former trade unionist with the United Steelworkers and a member of SOAR, the Steelworker Organization of Active Retirees. She belongs to the Unitarian Universalist Church of Studio City and is a member of the Author’s Guild, the Association of Writers & Writing Programs, the International Women’s Writing Guild and the Italian American Writers Association.

Rachel's writing has been featured in national outlets such as UU World, Coping with Cancer Magazine, Wildfire Magazine, Surviving Breast Cancer and Industry Week, and in regional outlets including Honolulu Civil Beat, Indianapolis Business Journal, Building Indiana, Sacramento Bee, Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, The Star and Valley Scene Magazine. She is the author of the circular “The Real Rachel BS” on Substack where she writes about family, organ donation, minimalism, breast cancer, Hawai'i Nei and her Sicilian heritage, among many other topics.

Her debut memoir, Losing My Kidney and Finding My Voice: Confessions of a Living Donor released in 2026 by BC Books.