Rebecca Kightlinger is a novelist and a book critic for Historical Novels Review. 
She earned her MFA in creative writing from the University of Southern Maine's Stonecoast MFA program. 

From 1987 to 2010, she practiced medicine. As an obstetrician/gynecologist she was privileged to serve the women of Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Guyana. She taught on the clinical faculty of the University of Virginia School of Medicine, where she was honored to work alongside leaders in her field and contribute to peer-reviewed research on menopause and cervical cancer.

In 2010 an injury curtailed her medical career prematurely. In 2014 she earned her MFA 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 wield ancient, life-sustaining power.  Megge of Bury Down was published in 2018 and went on to win awards for historical fiction, cover design, best first book, and best audiobook.

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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.
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