Rachel Monroe is a freelance author, journalist, and writer. She is a contributing writer at The Atlantic, where she covers Texas and the Southwest. Monroe hosted the BBC podcast "Lost at Sea," about a missing fisheries observer and crimes on the high seas. Monroe's work has appeared in The New Yorker, Vulture, The Atlantic, Wired, Esquire, The New York Times, and Outside Magazine, and has been collected in anthologies. Her first book, "Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession" was published in 2019.