Rebecca Wait is an author and teacher. She grew up in the Oxfordshire countryside and studied English at Oxford University. She wrote her first novel, The View on the Way Down, the year after graduating, while working as a teaching assistant. After qualifying as a teacher, she spent more than a decade teaching English in London secondary schools while continuing to write novels.

Rebecca has also taught creative writing courses for adults alongside her secondary school teaching.

She now lives in Buckinghamshire and writes full time.