Her second collection, Her Birth (Carcanet, 2013) about the death of her young daughter from a rare heart condition, was shortlisted for The 2013 Forward Prize for Best Collection, The Warwick Prize for Writing 2015 and The Portico Prize for Literature 2015. Rebecca believes grief must be articulated in order to survive it. She has worked extensively in the world of medical humanities, judging the Hippocrates International Prize for Poetry and Medicine in 2015 and speaking at internationally recognised conferences including Medicine Unboxed; Life Death, Whatever; UCL Encountering Pain and ‘Neonatal Palliative and End of Life Care’ for Child Bereavement UK. In 2014, Rebecca was selected for The Poetry Book Society's Next Generation Poets, a list complied every ten years of twenty poets ‘expected to dominate the poetry landscape of the coming decade’.