Rachel Hamilton

Rachel Hamilton is an award-winning children’s author whose books have been published in the UK and US by Simon & Schuster, OUP and Scholastic. A graduate of both Oxford and Cambridge universities, she currently teaches Creative Writing for Young People at Bath Spa University and is a PhD researcher at the University of Bristol, where her work explores AI’s role in creative collaboration. Rachel’s chapter ‘Artificially Funny: Collaborative Play at the Intersection of AI, Literature and Humour’ features in the recent Routledge Handbook of AI and Literature (2025). Her research focuses on the intersection of literary innovation, machine learning, and comedy. Before turning to writing, teaching and research, Rachel worked for over a decade in advertising at agencies such as BBH, DDB and Lowe Lintas. She has also worked as a copywriter and columnist, with pieces appearing in The Guardian, Time Out, and other publications. Rachel has run writing workshops in schools, prisons and corporate boardrooms, and once co-hosted the world’s highest writing workshop at the top of the Burj Khalifa. In her spare time, she enjoys stand-up comedy and once toured the Middle East as part of Dubomedy’s ‘Funny Girls’ collective.