Rachel Genn

Rachel Genn is senior lecturer at Manchester Writing School. Formerly a Neuroscientist, she was Royal Society Fellow at UBC, Canada and has written two novels: THE CURE, (2011) and WHAT YOU COULD HAVE WON (2020). She was a Leverhulme Artist-in-Residence (2016) creating THE NATIONAL FACILITY FOR THE REGULATION OF REGRET (ASFF 2016, SXSW, 2017) and has non-fiction in Granta, Los Angeles Review of Books, Aeon/Psyche, and The New Statesman. Collaborating with SODA’s Debbie Ballin and HumanStudio, she has created BATTLEDRESS, a 2-screen immersive experience about female fashions and fighting in 80s/90s Northern England.