RACHEL KAUDER NALEBUFF is an otherwise normal 18-year old, who ended up writing about periods. She is the editor of My Little Red Book, an anthology of first-period stories from women of all ages and all around the world. A recent graduate of Choate Rosemary Hall, Rachel is on a gap year before enrolling at Yale University. After many summers living and working in China, she can speak, even rap, in Chinese. She is also fluent in French and Spanish, and is working on Portuguese. During her gap year, she studied at Catholic University in Rio, earned a degree in Patisserie at the Cordon Bleu (Paris), and volunteered with the NGO Seva Mandir in Udaipur (India) working on a project collecting stories from widows about their struggle to live independently despite the odds.

In her free time, she plays ukulele, rides/falls off her unicycle, and indulges in late-night pie baking with friends. Her reading tastes range from Tropic of Cancer and The God of Small Things to Elizabeth Falkner's Demolition Desserts. She is donating all the proceeds that she receives from sales of My Little Red Book to charities promoting women's health and education so that the book may benefit girls beyond its readers. In India, some of these funds support Seva Mandir. Other funds are targeted towards the Health and Water Foundation in Kenya, where a lack of sanitary supplies often forces girls to stay home from school during their periods, thereby depriving them of almost a quarter of their rightful education. Here in the US, Real Life / Real Talk, Girls Inc., and Choice USA  are the primary beneficiaries.