
Rebecca Cuthbert
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Rebecca Cuthbert is an award-winning author of dark poetry and feminist horror. Her work often explores the creeping dread of domestic spaces, destabilizing the familiar and rendering uncanny the commonplace details of everyday lives.
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, and the story “I Won’t Call It a Monster” was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. A collection of strange tales and dark magical realism, Six O’Clock House & Other Strange Tales (Watertower Hill Publishing, 2025), won a bronze medal in the 2026 North American Book Awards and is a finalist for the 2026 Imadjinn Award for Best Story Collection.
Rebecca is a member of the Horror Writers Association (Buffalo Branch, NY Chapter) and of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association. 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.
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