Rebecca Perry was born in London in 1986. She graduated from the Centre of New Writing at The University of Manchester in 2008 with a master's degree in Creative Writing and now lives and works back in London. Rebecca has had work recently published in Iota, Smiths Knoll, The Manchester Review and The Rialto. She placed third in the 2012 Plough Prize, and was Highly Commended in the 2011 Bridport Prize. Rebecca has also contributed to This Line is Not for Turning: An Anthology of Contemporary British Prose Poetry (Cinnamon Press)