Rebekah graduated from Madonna University in 2014 with a B.A. in Writing and in English and received her M.A. at the University of Toledo in 2016. She has worked as a composition instructor for both private and public universities in Michigan, experiences that helped her to blend research with writing practice and pedagogy. Rebekah's research interests in the long nineteenth century focus on fin-de-siècle women’s poetry, the marriage plot, and the intersection of evolutionary theory and gender in both poetry and literature.