Rachel Sturtz is an author and award-winning journalist living in Denver.

For the past two decades, she’s written investigative features, profiles, travel stories, and gear guides for more than 40 national and regional publications. In 2020, she won the FOLIO award for best long-form feature content for "Unsafe Space,” an investigative piece for The Voice (since renamed Outside Business Journal) that looked into sex, abuse, and power in the outdoor industry. In 2014, her 13,000-word exposé for Outside, "Unprotected," dissected the criminal cover-up of athlete abuse by the U.S. Olympic Committee and its governing bodies. Outside named it one of "The Best Stories We've Ever Told" in 2018.

Sturtz’s work has also appeared in New York Magazine, Esquire, Marie Claire, Runner's World, Women's Health, Hemispheres, and Popular Mechanics, among others.

Outside of writing, she serves on the board of the Rocky Mountain Society of Botanical Artists and won the 2024 Sydney Parkinson Award for her work in botanical illustration.