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.
She has self-published three children’s books and has also written a full, unpublished trilogy of novels. Rochelle is currently conjuring her first dark-fantasy book with a Plath-esque edge. Her poetry appears in Propel Magazine and the Black Cat Poetry Press Nature anthology, and her bylines include Happiful Magazine, Rock ’n’ Roll Bride, Mashable, Conscious Being, and more.
On Substack, she writes with candour and wildness about unlearning, rebuilding, and finding meaning in the margins—while rewriting what it means to be a neurodivergent creative and witch, practising her own brand of glitchcraft.
BIO
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.
