Rachel Yun is a junior at Yale University, majoring in English with a Creative Writing Concentration, and Film & Media Studies. 

Rachel has been practicing creative writing since elementary school, in the form of half-baked ideas written into dollar store spiral notebooks. In high school, she began focusing on developing style, diction, and narrative tone through short stories. Her pieces, dating back to 2021, are available on Instagram @pyrlight.

For two years at Yale, Rachel focused on the Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology major as a pre-med student. Multiple of her publications with Yale Scientific Magazine explore recent advances in scientific research. 

Rachel devoted over 300 total hours to clinical volunteering in Los Angeles, CA, specializing in the Emergency Department, and to facilitating the accessibility to medication in New Haven, CT, with Haven Free Clinic Pharmacy. In doing so, she reflected on the concerning implications of a lack of humanity in the healthcare space.

Rachel workshops her fiction prose with her peers and with notable professors, including Marie-Helene Bertino and Caryl Phillips, specializing in speculative and realistic fiction prose writing. 

Currently, Rachel is co-writing and head-producing the feature film 'Lux et Veritas,' directed by Daphne Joyce Wu ('26).  The film is projected to be released mid- to late-2026. She is the Assistant Director for 'Circe,' the Yale Cinemat Fall 2025 student production, and a Translation PA for 'GUMIHO (언니).' For more information on these projects, see @luxetveritasfilm, @circe_shortfilm, and @gumiho_film on Instagram.

Rachel is a member of the Producing Committee of the Yale Student Film Festival, which handles the review and deliberation of hundreds of student films across five categories: narrative, documentary, experimental, animation, and high school student films. 

YSFF '26 is projected to take place from April 2-5, 2026.

As the Director of Communications of Yale Undergraduate Screenwriting Syndicate, Rachel ensures that a friendly, inspiring environment is available for screenwriters at any experience level, and that close connections can be created with other filmmakers through the Yale Cinemat, Yale's only student-run film production organization.

Rachel’s biggest creative inspirations include Han Kang (The White Book, The Vegetarian), Kazuo Ishiguro (Never Let Me Go), Tatsuki Fujimoto (Look Back), and Lim Sang Choon (When the Camellia Blooms, When Life Gives You Tangerines).