Rachel Seely Grover graduated from BYU with a BA in humanities and English and an MA in art history. For her thesis on early Byzantine church floor mosaics, Rachel received three fellowships from the American Center for Oriental Research in Amman and spent several months researching in Jordan. Her thesis was published in Liber Annuus in 2012. Rachel loved teaching humanities and art history courses at BYU before she moved to Maryland. She now lives in Baltimore with her husband and three children, where she works as a freelance editor and has fun teaching art history lessons to children.