About
Rachel Somerstein is a writer, an associate professor of journalism at SUNY New Paltz, and the author of Invisible Labor: The Untold Story of the Cesarean Section, forthcoming from Ecco June 4, 2024.
Rachel’s reporting and essays have appeared in the Boston Globe, Longreads, the Rumpus, the Washington Post, and WIRED, among many other publications. She’s also a leading expert in the areas of photography, gender, and collective memory. She holds a PhD from Syracuse University’s Newhouse School, an MFA in creative writing from NYU, and a BA in English and history from Cornell University. She’s the mother of two young children.