Rochelle Hanslow is a Scottish, neurodivergent, chronically ill writer, poet, Substack essayist, and proud system dropout dedicated to dismantling gatekeeping with ink, imagination, and a well-aimed F-you. She home educates her two sons, talks to trees more than humans, and writes at the crossroads of magic, wilderness, and unfiltered humanity.
A prolific creator, Rochelle has self-published three children’s books and a collection of zines. In 2025, she completed a three-part novel series and is currently conjuring her first dark-fantasy novel with a Plath-esque twist, alongside a non-fiction exploration of her unique ‘earth witch’ practice.
Her poetry has been featured in Dreich, Eche Poetry, Propel Magazine, Propel Anthology and the Black Cat Poetry Press Nature anthology ‘The Water Knows I Love You’. TWOOMPH has spotlighted her spoken word, and she delivered a highlighted performance on the Eat the Storms podcast. Looking ahead, her debut poetry pamphlet ‘Wolf In The Nursery’ is scheduled for release in 2027 with Black Cat Poetry Press, and she is already at work on her second pamphlet.
On Substack, she writes with candour and wildness about unlearning, rebuilding, and finding meaning in the margins, rewriting what it means to be a neurodivergent creative and witch, practising her own brand of glitchcraft.
Her journalism bylines include Happiful Magazine, Edition Dog Magazine, Rock ’n’ Roll Bride, Mashable, and Conscious Being, with regular contributions including featured articles and music journalism with The Everyday Magazine.
Like Sylvia Plath once said;
“I write only because there is a voice within me that will not be still.”
Creativity has been my soul’s desire ever since I started to learn how to write, read, and draw. My earliest memory of being a creative was when I was around four, in nursery school. While the other children all played together and did gymnastics, I escaped to the art corner and painted a picture of an elephant. I believe that your ‘why’ is your true north in all you do and for me, my ‘why’ for this journey is to heal; myself and others, to be the person for others in their darkest times that I desperately wished to have in my own.
I am a believer that nature has so many answers and shows us how to live a life well lived. I like to share the lessons that nature has given me and the wisdom that talking to the trees brings out within me. My work lives at the intersection between magical and deeply human; that’s my truth.
