Rebecca Goss lives in Suffolk. She studied English at Liverpool John Moores University and has an MA in Creative Writing from Cardiff University. Her second collection Her Birth (Carcanet/Northern House 2013) was shortlisted for The 2013 Forward Prize for Best Collection, The Warwick Prize for Writing 2015 and The Portico Prize for Literature 2015. It won the Poetry category in The 2014 East Anglian Book Awards. In 2014 she was selected for The Poetry Book Society’s Next Generation Poets. She works as a poet, tutor, editor and mentor. She is the 2018/19 Fellow in Creative Writing at Liverpool John Moores University.