Rachel Genn joined the Manchester Writing School as an Associate Lecturer (Fiction) in 2011 and was appointed Lecturer in Creative Writing (Fiction and Script) in the Department of English in September 2016.

Rachel is a doctor of neuroscience by training and, before beginning to write fiction seriously in 2005, worked at Kings College London, The Maudsley, and was a Royal Society Fellow at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. She completed the Sheffield Hallam Creative Writing MA in 2006 and is now a novelist and scriptwriter.