Rachel Buchanan is a journalist and historian whose writing has been published in newspapers, magazines, books, academic and literary journals in Australia and New Zealand. Trained as a reporter in New Zealand, between 1993 and 2002 she was on staff at The Age newspaper, working as a sub-editor, reporter, feature writer, opinion writer and columnist. Her stories, reviews and essays have also appeared in Meanjin, Arena Magazine and Australian Book Review.

Her latest book is The Parihaka Album: lest we forget (Huia Publishers, 2010).