Rachel Toor is a professor of creative writing at Eastern Washington University’s writing program, in Spokane, and a former acquisitions editor at Oxford University Press and Duke University Press.

Running Times columnist Rachel Toor has written a young adult novel about a high school senior, Alice Davis, who is struggling with college admissions, boys, parents and discovering what she's made of ...

Rachel Toor offers a quirky take on the weird, wonky and deeply human realities of academic life, drawing on decades spent in publishing, admissions, the faculty trenches and now as a presidential ...

Rachel Toor’s piece on the pride and perils of being an academic child omitted one crucial disadvantage: the daily battle to get a word in edgewise at the dinner table (“The Childe’s Tale,” The Review ...

In this humorous if self-indulgent memoir, Toor takes readers through a string of romantic relationships with nice, eager-to-please men (whom she compares—both favorably and unfavorably—to dogs), ...

Rachel Toor wonders whether the commonplace books of quotes that contemporary students keep are cause for praise or blame (“Commonplaces: From Quote Books to ‘Sig’ Files,” The Review, May 25). Let me ...

Academics, especially scientists, tend not to make statements they can’t back up with reams of documentation and sheaves of evidence. In these times of alternative facts, that’s something we should ...

Rachel Toor bravely confesses in her most recent Chronicle article, “My Little Bag of Writing Tricks,” that she doesn’t do grammar. “Identifying the parts of speech never made it into my repertoire,” ...

I heartily agree with Rachel Toor’s sadness, in The Chronicle’s April 30 section “Admissions & Student Aid” (“Confessions of a Recovering Admissions Officer”), over the intense pressure put on ...

I buy tickets in the cheap seats, partly because I’m a professor long accustomed to not spending money. This burnishes my sense of moral superiority. I’ve been hanging out in the bleachers of higher ...

In 2007, she ran so many marathons and ultra-marathons that she ended up, at the end of one race, in the medical tent. She felt like getting out of running altogether. But her agent said that Toor ...

Rachel Toor seems to have had an allergic reaction to Reshma Memon Yaqub’s article in Worth (“Tip for Parents: Want Harvard? Try a Dakota,” The Review, September 20). Toor calls the piece silly. She ...