journalist, author*

*also: good eater, morning runner, obsessive traveler, human observer, annoying mother

recent stories

The Adele of Audiobooks

The New Yorker

Molly Seidel Might Always Be a Work in Progress. She’s Totally OK With That.

Runner’s World

I Eat Meat. Why Was Killing My Own Food So Hard?

Bon Appetit

Can California Tourism Survive Climate Change?

The New York Times

Rachel Levin is a San Francisco journalist and author, who often covers food, travel, and cultural trends, as well as the occasional Instagrammer hunter, speed-dating mother, and incarcerated marathoner. She has written about adult campers and audiobook narrators, bear whisperers and raccoon wranglers, uncrowded national parks and over-crowded mountain towns, posh motels, piano men, and more, for the New Yorker, the New York Times’ Travel, Styles, and Kids sections, Outside, Bon Appetit, the Wall Street Journal, the Cut, T magazine, Eater, as its’ first San Francisco restaurant critic, and elsewhere.