Rachel Baiman is a freelance writer and musician who explores roots music, women, culture, power structures, and creativity. She is an M.F.A candidate at Western Kentucky University with a focus on Literature. Her writing has been featured in Litmosphere: The Journal of Charlotte Lit, The Bluegrass Situation, and No Depression Magazine, among other places. Her songwriting has been featured by NPR, Rolling Stone Magazine, The Boston Globe, Vice Noisey, Garden and Gun, and American Songwriter Magazine, and has been streamed over 10 million times.
Artist Biographies:
Songs of Our Native Daughters Press Release
Journalistic:
“Four Women Producers and Engineers on Studio Challenges and Success” | The Bluegrass Situation Oct 2023
“Brittany Haas Joins the Punch Brothers…” | The Bluegrass Situation Jan 2024
“When You Lose One of Your Own” | No Depression Sept 2022
“The Brilliance of Courtney Barnett” | Medium, 2016
Creative:
“Kayla Rae Has Been Driving All Day” Litmosphere, Spring 2023
“The Weekly Croissant” | Substack
Academic:
“Nationalist Composers and Fiddle Music: A Reflection of Removal from
Traditional Culture, with Specific Attention to Copland and Grieg”|
Vanderbilt Undergraduate Research Journal, 2011