Rebecca Lehmann is a poet and novelist. Her books include the poetry collections The Sweating Sickness (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2025), Ringer (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019), winner of the 2018 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry, and Between the Crackups (Salt Publishing, 2011). Her debut novel, The Beheading Game, in which Anne Boleyn rises from the dead shortly after her execution, sews her head back on, and seeks revenge on Henry VIII, with a queer romance along the way, is forthcoming from Crown. Her writing has been featured in The American Poetry Review, The Threepenny Review, Kenyon Review, NPR’s The Slowdown, the New York Public Library’s Poem-in-Your-Pocket program, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day and other venues. She holds an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and a PhD in creative writing from Florida State University. Lehmann lives in Indiana, where she is Associate Professor of English at Saint Mary’s College. She is represented by Renée Zuckerbrot at Massie, McQuilkin & Altman Literary Agents.