Rei is a writer, journalist, and artist.
Rei takes pride in being born and raised in New York by a tenacious single mother and two loving grandparents. She has lived in all four corners of the United States.
She excels in hard news and features. She also writes literary short fiction, personal essays and poetry.
Rei has been published in The Herald Community Newspapers, The Envoy newspaper, The Athenian newspaper, the CUNYverse blog and The Olivetree Review literary journal. Her short story “Planet X7” received an honorable mention in the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest.
In her fiction Rei focuses on socioeconomic commentary, emotional inheritance and fitting the mundane into the extraordinary. In her creative nonfiction she tends towards self-examination and lyric memoir.
For hobbies, Rei enjoys photography, hiking, painting and drawing. She volunteers with FoodNotBombs, an organization that provides food to low-income families. She values environmental rights, animal welfare and destigmatizing mental health. She also plays with her dog, Aurora Borealis.