Rachel Cohn is an American young adult fiction writer. She was born on December 14, 1968. Rachel grew up in the D.C. area and graduated from Barnard College with a B.A. in Political Science.

Her first book, Gingerbread, was published in 2002. Since then, she has written many other successful YA and younger children's books. Rachel has also collaborated on six books with the author David Levithan.

She lives and writes in New York City, spending her time reading other people's books, organizing her music library, and looking for the best cappuccino.