In her past lives, Rebecca Hazelwood has been a lecturer at a university, a photojournalist, an English Assistant in a French middle school, and a long-term substitute teacher in a high school, among other things. She’s originally from Kentucky, but she’s lived in Missouri, France, Georgia, Chicago, and Louisiana. Now she lives in northern Alabama, where she is writes full-time. She lives with her husband, four neurodivergent stepkids, five cats, and her mom.

She is a 2024 recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).

Her interests include fountain pens and ink (and inky fingers), baseball (in particular, the Baltimore Orioles), teaching, Unsolved Mysteries, true crime, creative nonfiction, poetry, memory, trauma narratives, and all things teeth-related. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Guernica, Passages North, December, Entropy, Appalachian Review, Anthropoid, Hobart, Still, and PANK. She is currently completing a memoir about her Appalachian family and her true crime childhood as the daughter of a detective with many demons.