Rachel De Vera-Weninger is a scholar-poet with Bay Area roots. Currently in Las Vegas, she is a higher education practitioner at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, savoring history and ethnic studies literature. 

Rachel is an award winning and congressionally recognized poet.  She has been published in many places including Philippines Times of Southern Nevada. She also serves as a Mountain West Co-Chair for Kundiman. 

Her writing process leans into her identities as a granddaughter of immigrants, a survivor of divorce, and a Filipina to create her work.