Rebecca Goss

Dr Rebecca Goss is an award-winning poet, tutor and mentor. Her poetry has been published extensively in literary journals, national newspapers and broadcast on BBC Radio 4. She is the author of four full-length collections and two pamphlets. Her second collection, Her Birth (Carcanet, 2013), is about the death of her baby daughter in 2008 and was shortlisted for the 2013 Forward Prize for Best Collection, the Warwick Prize for Writing 2015, and the Portico Prize for Literature 2015. In 2014 Rebecca was selected for the Poetry Book Society’s Next Generation Poets, a list compiled every ten years of ‘twenty exciting voices for the future’. She is the winner of the 2022 Sylvia Plath Prize. She has an MA in Creative Writing from Cardiff University and a PhD by Publication from the University of East Anglia.

Her pamphlet Carousel, a collaborative venture with the photographer Chris Routledge, was published by Guillemot Press in 2018. Her third collection, Girl (Carcanet, 2019), was shortlisted for the East Anglian Book Awards in 2019. She has been a recipient of grants from the Society of Authors, including the Roger Deakin Award for her fourth collection, Latch (Carcanet, 2023), which explores emotional and physical connections to the Suffolk landscape.

Rebecca has worked as a writing mentor and creative writing tutor for over 20 years. She has taught for the Arvon Foundation, the Poetry Society, the Poetry School and the University of East Anglia. In 2018–19, Rebecca was a Creative Writing Fellow at Liverpool John Moores University. A passionate advocate of interdisciplinary projects, she has been involved in numerous collaborative events with medics, scientists and artists, including her Wellcome Trust/Royal Society of Chemistry-supported project ‘Nomenclature’, which looks at the voices of mothers working in science. 

Dr Rebecca Goss is an established poet, the author of four collections and two pamphlets. She has worked extensively in the world of medical humanities using poetry to explore the subjects of empathy, bereavement and illness. She is currently Writer-in-Residence for CW+, the official charity of Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (2025-27). As an RLF Writing for Life Fellow, Rebecca focuses on Writing for Self-Expression, working with NHS Recovery Colleges and Trade Unions to provide writing and wellbeing workshops, often as part of a mental health recovery journey. She finds this work deeply rewarding, believing that reading, writing and engaging with literature can enable people to articulate, understand, survive and celebrate their experiences.