About

Rebecca wrote poetry in her teens and early twenties, then three decades later facing the unexpected death of her husband, Caspar Althaus, a stone mason and sculptor, turned back to it as the only sane response to what was happening.

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After studying Philosophy & Literature at The University of Warwick she worked as a body therapist and teacher, and lived with Caspar in a Victorian walled garden which they restored and where they built an off-grid home.

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Her collection ‘Burying Your Body’ is set in the walled garden and was written during and after a Creative Writing MA at Bath Spa University, where she received a distinction.

 

She is currently editing the collection, poems from which have appeared in various magazines including The Rialto, The North, and The Manchester Review. Her poetry was highly commended in The Poetry Business International Book & Pamphlet Competition. 

 

She lives near Penzance, at the far end of Cornwall, and is in the middle of a creative PhD at Falmouth University.

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