About Rachel

Rachel Thompson is a British author and journalist specialising in sex, dating, and relationships.

Rachel’s first book, Rough: How violence has found its way into the bedroom and what we can do about it was published by Square Peg of VINTAGE books in August 2021. Stylist magazine called Rough "2021's most important book about sex".

She is currently working on her second non-fiction title, an investigation into dating culture, which will be published in January 2025.

Rachel is the Features Editor at Mashable, based in London. She is a leading sex and relationships writer in the UK and has written for GQ, The Guardian, British Glamour, Stylist, ELLE, The Sunday Times Style, The Telegraph, CNN, HuffPost, The Face, Flo, and many more.