Rachel Wood

Rachel Wood is the founder of Rare Birds Book Shop, a thriving independent bookstore in the heart of Edinburgh that was named “one of the coolest new bookshops” by the Sunday Times. As a former theatre kid, Rachel’s love of storytelling began on stage, but by the time she was a teenager she’d figured out it was much easier to write the lines rather than to learn them. 

Born and raised in Toronto, Canada, Rachel first moved to Edinburgh to pursue a masters in creative writing and has lived there ever since.