Rae Elle Riley

Rae Elle Riley is a debut memoirist with a passion for storytelling that comes out visceral and raw in thin strips sliced nearest to the heart. A twelve year veteran, union steamfitter, Riley writes in a blended vernacular of blue-collar slang banter and prosaic singsong inspired by a lifelong pursuit of the greatest prose writers of any language. Her tone is orchestral ranging from the muffled tinklings of fragile spiderweb philosophies to the manic crescendo of absolutes filled with them the spittle and fire and force of such things stabbed into the page. All of it sucks the reader into this event horizon cacophony of sound, and word, and tempo, and so maybe a new voice is birthed in the silence of whatever that black hole spews out into the other side.

Rae Elle Riley lives in Swarthmore Pennsylvania with her wife Michelle and two children. When not writing she produces metal art and plays guitar. She is currently living the sequel to Just Nod If You Can Hear Me and promises a follow up book as equally soaked in lifeblood as the first.