Rain Graves was born on October 28th, 1974 in Washington D.C. She grew up in Virginia and Maryland, where she used to play guitar and sing in rock and roll bands, worked in a record store, and worked her way through two television internships interviewing rock stars (Primus, Stripmind, Candlebox, Z - Dweezle & Ahmet Zappa, Dig, and many others) on-camera and on-location during college. In 1995, she moved to California and made her home in the San Francisco Bay Area.

She made her first professional sale in 1997 to the Transylvanian Society of Dracula's publishing imprint at the time with a short story called "Thoughts of Anna," which won 2nd place in a creative writing contest at the Dracula 97 Convention (celebrating 100 years of Bram Stoker's Dracula in print). From there she was encouraged to continue publishing, and has been in many books, magazines, and other publications since. She has also written freelance ad copy, voice-overs for MTV's "Buggles" project for (now defunct) ImagineRadio, and worked as a Fiction Editor for the former San Francisco web magazine Errata, and was the Poetry Editor for Gothic.net for nearly four years. Now, she is the Editor in Chief of Spiderwords Magazine.

In June of 2003, Ms. Graves won the 2002 Bram Stoker Award for Poetry for The Gossamer Eye, which she co-wrote with David N. Wilson and Mark McLaughlin. She performs spoken word across the Bay Area and where ever she travels. In early 2005 she completed a second volume of poetry titled Barfodder: Poetry Written in Dark Bars and Questionable Cafes, which will be published by Cemetery Dance. She is a frequent attendee of the World Horror Convention, and often participates in the Annual Gross Out Contest. In 2006, she will be the host of the infamous event.

In her off time, she teaches and performs Argentine Tango - and has achieved quite a bit internationally in that arena since 2001. But that's another story...

Currently, Ms. Graves is working on a full length novel of Tango, a full-length novel of dark fantasy, and several scattered scripts of both the comic and film nature (though she would never admit to the film part).