Rachel Kolb is a writer whose work explores communication, language, and disability as central components of human experience. A graduate of Stanford University, she was the first signing deaf Rhodes Scholar at Oxford before receiving her PhD in English literature from Emory University and then completing a junior fellowship in the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. She has been published in the New York Times and the Atlantic, among other outlets, and has been a speaker at TEDx Stanford and several national conferences on deafness and disability. Her first book, Articulate: A Deaf Memoir of Voice, is forthcoming with Ecco Press in September 2025.