Rebecca Stafford is a novelist.

My name is Rebecca Stafford. I grew up in rural Georgia in a house overflowing with books and paper, and spent most of my afternoons in my town’s library. Books were my refuge and my escape; I would not have survived adolescence without them! I wrote constantly — mostly terrible vampire stories.

I’ve built my life around the power and beauty of writing. I attended Davidson College as a Cornwell Scholar, and later went to the University of Notre Dame for an MFA and Florida State University for a PhD. I published extensively in poetry, landing poems in The New Yorker, Best American Poetry, and receiving two Pushcart prizes. I have the privilege of working with the talented undergrad and graduate students of North Central College in Illinois, and I’m honored to read their work and help them reach their writing and scholarship goals.

My first young adult novel, Rabbit and Juliet, is forthcoming in Fall 2024, from Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Children’s Books.

If you’re interested in booking a school visit, a library event, or a book club visit, contact me for availability.

Professional Bio

Rebecca Stafford is a Pushcart Prize award-winning poet, writer, critic, and editor whose work has been published in the New Yorker and reviewed in the New York Times. Rabbit and Juliet is her debut young adult novel. To learn more about Rebecca’s distinguished body of work, visit her online at www.rebeccastaffordauthor.com. 

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