Rakel Liehu (born 3 September 1939) is a Finnish poet, dramatist and novelist.

[3] Her other notable works include the novel Punainen ruukku ('Red Pot') (1980), and the essay collection Sininen kala ('Blue Fish') (1999).

[4][8] In 2008, Liehu received the Finnish State Literature Prize (Kirjallisuuden valtionpalkinto [fi]).

[2] She herself survived, but suffered from resultant ill health all her childhood, missing much of school while needing to convalesce; it was during that time that she became interested in poetry.

[2] Liehu graduated from the University of Helsinki in 1963, after which she worked briefly as a teacher of Finnish and history at a secondary school in Raahe.