Rebecca K. Reilly is a New Zealand author celebrated for her literary debut with the novel Greta & Valdin in 2021. Reilly's work caught the public eye when it won the 2019 Adam Foundation Prize in Creative Writing. Garnering further acclaim, Greta & Valdin was shortlisted for the prestigious Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction at the 2022 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards and earned the Hubert Church prize for the best first book of fiction.