Rebecca Edwards, born 4 April 1969, is a poet and visual artist. She grew up in Nambucca Heads, Nauru, Sydney, New Guinea, Katherine and Darwin and Japan. She attended the University of Queensland where she majored in Japanese and was awarded a Bachelor of Arts in 1992. She was Asialink writer-in-residence at Keio University from 2000 to 2001, and used the residency to develop a collection of poetry and hold an exhibition of her artwork.