Rachel Garbus

Rachel Garbus is the deputy editor at Atlanta, where she covers politics, arts, culture, sports (under duress), and other miscellany. A native of Massachusetts, Rachel moved to Atlanta after college and shocked her kin by falling in love with the South. She now lives in Southwest Atlanta with her wife, who is an Emory primatologist, along with their daughter and one anxious rescue dog. In addition to her work at Atlanta, Rachel is the editor-in-chief of the queer culture magazine Wussy and the Atlanta LGBTQ+ History Project.