Rebecca Watts

Rebecca Watts was born in Suffolk in 1983 and currently lives in Cambridge, where she works in a library and as a freelance writer, editor and tutor. In 2015 a selection of her poetry featured in Carcanet's New Poetries VI >anthology. Her debut collection The Met Office Advises Caution (2016) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was shortlisted for the 2017 Seamus Heaney Centre Prize. Her second collection, Red Gloves, was published in 2020 and won a Gladstone's Library Writers-in-Residence Award. Rebecca has received fellowships and awards from the Hawthornden Foundation, the Royal Literary Fund, the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative, the Society of Authors and Arts Council England. The Face in the Well (2025) is her latest collection.