Rebecca Burke is the editor of sad grownups, winner of the 2025 pen/bingham prize, and In Between Spaces: An Anthology of Disabled Writers from Stillhouse Press. Born and raised in Springfield, Virginia. She is a graduate of George Mason University with a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing and a Bachelor’s in government and international politics. As a graduate student, she served as the submissions and acquisitions manager at Stillhouse Press, and as the fiction editor at So to Speak. in addition to her day job, Rebecca continues to volunteer for Stillhouse Press. She is currently working on finishing her first book, a novel about PTSD, queerness, and navigating childhood trauma. She lives in lynchburg, virginia, with her partner and two dogs.

Her work has been published in Peatsmoke, Homology Lit, and the Nasiona, among other places. You can follow her on instagram @BeccaBurke95, where she posts about living with a visual impairment, writing, horses, swimming, and all things feminism.