About

Her debut poetry collection, In Memory of Exoskeletons (Alien Buddha Press, 2023) won a 2024 Imadjinn Award for Best Poetry Collection; the poems “Still Love” and “Bloodthirsty” were nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and “Still Love” was also nominated for a Best of the Net Award. CREEP THIS WAY: How to Become a Horror Writer With 24 Steps to Get You Ghouling (Seamus & Nunzio Productions, 2024) was nominated for a Golden Scoop Award. Her hybrid fiction and poetry collection of feminist horrors, Self-Made Monsters (Alien Buddha Press, 2024) was a finalist for the 2025 Imadjinn Award for Best Story Collection. Her first all-ages picture book, Down in the Dark Deep Where the Puddlers Dwell (AEA Press & Malediction, 2024), was illustrated by Dakota Marquardt. A collection of strange tales and dark magical realism, Six O’Clock House & Other Strange Tales (Watertower Hill Publishing), was published in January of 2025. A collection of ghost stories, The Hauntings Back Home (with foreword and thirteenth story by Jonathan Gensler and a poem by Beatrice Sheehan), was released in October of 2025 by Undertaker Books.

Notable publications include the story “The Taste of Other People’s Teeth” in Shadows in the Stacks: a Spirited Giving Charity Anthology (Shortwave Publishing), nominated for a 2025 Pushcart Prize; “I Won’t Call it a Monster” in Self-Made Monsters, nominated for a 2025 Pushcart Prize; “The Quilting Circle of Bygone Gardens” in Soul Scream Antholozine (Seamus & Nunzio Productions, 2023); the sonnet “No Rest Nor Relief For You With Me Dead” in Shakespeare Unleashed (Monstrous Books and Crystal Lake Publishing, 2023); and the story “Falling to Pieces” in We’re Here: Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2022 (Neon Hemlock Press, 2023). Another story, “Grafting,” was published in Miniskirt Magazine and nominated for a Best of the Net award.

Rebecca is an Active Pro Member of the Horror Writers Association and part of the Buffalo Branch of the HWA NY Chapter. Additionally, she is proud to be a Moanaria Fright Club alumna and a co-conspirator in Lindsay Merbaum’s Study Coven. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Undertaker Books, a publisher of dark fiction. She is represented by Lane Heymont and Danai Christopoulou of the Tobias Literary Agency.

Get in touch via the links below: