Power of Narrative 2025

Rachelle Chase is a podcaster, author, ghostwriter, columnist, and public speaker.

Her published works include Creating the Black Utopia of Buxton, Iowa and Lost Buxton (both historical non-fiction), along with eight fiction novels and novellas. Her upcoming middle grade historical fiction book, The Time I Was Susan Clark, is under consideration by several major publishers.

She has also worked as a columnist for The Des Moines Register and a reporter for Iowa Starting Line, plus her work has appeared in National Geographic, USA TODAY, and more.

She invites you to listen to her podcast, Reading with Rachelle, which focuses on the history we never learned in school but wish we had, and to join the monthly online history book, which is sponsored by the nonprofit she founded, Uniting Through History.