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Rebecca Cuthbert is a dark fiction and poetry writer living in Western New York. She loves ghost stories, folklore, witchy women, and anything that involves nature getting revenge.

Her debut poetry collection, In Memory of Exoskeletons, is out from Alien Buddha Press (March 2023), and CREEP THIS WAY: How to Become a Horror Writer With 24 Steps to Get You Ghouling is available now from Seamus & Nunzio Productions (Jan. 2024). Look for her hybrid poetry and story collection, Self-Made Monsters, in fall of 2024, also from ABP. News about a children’s horror picture book, a spicy gothic novella, and a ghost story collection will be out soon.

Notable publications include the story “The Quilting Circle of Bygone Gard linktr.ee/rebeccacuthbertwrites

Rebecca Cuthbert is a dark fiction and poetry writer living in Western New York. She loves ghost stories, folklore, witchy women, and anything that involves nature getting revenge.

Her debut poetry collection, In Memory of Exoskeletons, is out from Alien Buddha Press (March 2023), and CREEP THIS WAY: How to Become a Horror Writer With 24 Steps to Get You Ghouling is available now from Seamus & Nunzio Productions (Jan. 2024). Look for her hybrid poetry and story collection, Self-Made Monsters, in fall of 2024, also from ABP. News about a children’s horror picture book, a spicy gothic novella, and a ghost story collection will be out soon.

Notable publications include the story “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).

Her poem “Still Love” was published in Nocturne Magazine, and nominated for both a Pushcart Prize and a Best of the Net award. Her poem “Bloodthirsty” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize as well (Alien Buddha Press). Both are included in her debut collection. A story, “Grafting,” was published in Miniskirt Magazine and nominated for a Best of the Net award.

Soon, her grief-horror story “Rock-a-Bye” will be out as part of Cemetery Dance Publications’ DREAD anthology (2024); and her story “The Taste of Other People’s Teeth” will be out as part of Spirited Giving’s Shadows in the Stacks anthology. A poem, “Estuary,” will be published in Seaside Gothic this summer, and “Mrs. Anderson, Mrs. Anderson,” a spicy ghost story, will be part of RebellionLit’s Two for the Show anthology.

Rebecca is an Active Pro Member of the Horror Writers Association and part 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 new horror press.

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	Hospital of Haunts by Heather Daughrity (Editor), Clay McLeod Chapman (Goodreads Author) (Foreword), Blaine Daigle (Goodreads Author) 4.24 avg rating — 76 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Hauntings Back Home: A Collection of Ghost Stories by Rebecca Cuthbert (Goodreads Author), Jonathan Gensler (Foreword) 4.65 avg rating — 37 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Creep This Way: How to Become a Horror Writer With 24 Tips to Get You Ghouling by Rebecca Cuthbert (Goodreads Author), Christopher Ryan (editor) 4.92 avg rating — 26 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Elpis Pages: A Collective by Kayla King (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Rebecca Cuthbert (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.94 avg rating — 18 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Hope: not a beacon,
no spark in the darkness,
nothing so bright to give it away.
It waits in deep shadow,
dissolving in moonlight, watching,
patient, counting your days.”
― Rebecca Cuthbert, In Memory of Exoskeletons

tags: darkness, deception, empowerment, hope, personal-power, poetry, rethink-your-mindset, stagnation

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