Rachel DeLoache Williams is a multidisciplinary creative specializing in photography, writing, and design.

A Knoxville native, she graduated from Kenyon College with a double major in studio art and English before moving to New York, where she spent nearly a decade as a photography editor at Vanity Fair, collaborating on iconic editorial projects with photographers such as Annie Leibovitz, Larry Fink, and Mark Seliger.

In 2019, she published her debut memoir, My Friend Anna (Gallery Books), which became a New York Times bestseller and was named one of TIME’s “100 Must-Read Books of the Year.”

Based in New York, she now freelances, collaborating with cultural institutions, publications, and private clients on writing, photography, art direction, set design, and narrative architecture.