avg_rating: 3.78
name: Rebecca Kightlinger
about: Rebecca Kightlinger is a writer and book critic who earned her MFA in creative writing from the University of Southern Maine's Stonecoast MFA program. From 1987 to 2010, she practiced medicine. But in 2010, an injury curtailed her medical career prematurely. In 2012 she entered the Stonecoast MFA program and began the first novel in her series about a family of women healers and seers in medieval Cornwall and the rocky path of a young girl destined to become a midwife's apprentice. Eight years later, Megge of Bury Down was published and went on to win awards for historical fiction, cover design, best first book, and best audiobook. Book Two, The Lady of the Cliffs, published in 2020, has taken awards for historical fiction and cover design. Rebecca Kightlinger is a writer and book critic who earned her MFA in creative writing from the University of Southern Maine's Stonecoast MFA program. From 1987 to 2010, she practiced medicine. But in 2010, an injury curtailed her medical career prematurely. In 2012 she entered the Stonecoast MFA program and began the first novel in her series about a family of women healers and seers in medieval Cornwall and the rocky path of a young girl destined to become a midwife's apprentice. Eight years later, Megge of Bury Down was published and went on to win awards for historical fiction, cover design, best first book, and best audiobook. Book Two, The Lady of the Cliffs, published in 2020, has taken awards for historical fiction and cover design.​​Kightlinger carries out on-site research in Cornwall as she writes each book of the award-winning Bury Down series. She and her husband and their family of dogs, cats, and chickens live a quiet life in Pennsylvania, where she is now at work on Book Three of The Bury Down Chronicles. ...more