Rebecca van Laer

Bio

Rebecca van Laer is the author of the novella How to Adjust to the Dark (Long Day Press, 2022) and a forthcoming memoir, Cat(Object Lessons, 2025). Her fiction and criticism appear in The New England Review, Joyland, Electric Literature, and elsewhere. She holds a Ph.D. in English from Brown University, where she studied queer and feminist autobiography. She lives in the Hudson Valley.