Rebecca Reynolds

Rebecca Reynolds is an American poet.

Life

Rebecca Reynolds was born in Washington D. C.,^[1] in which city she also grew up. She graduated from Vassar College, Rutgers University (MA in English), and the University of Michigan (MFA in creative writing/poetry).^[2] Since 1991, she has worked as an administrator at Douglass College, and has also taught Creative Writing at Rutgers University.^[3]

Stephen Burt calls her an Elliptical poet.^[4] Her work has appeared in Quarterly West,^[5] Boston Review, Spoon River Poetry Review,^[6] Cimarron Review,^[7] Quarterly West,^[8] Verse,^[9] and other journals.

She lives in Highland Park, New Jersey.^[10]

Awards

• Hopwood Award
• New Jersey State Council on the Arts grant
• 1998 Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society for Daughter of the Hangnail

Works

• "A Lady’s Manual; House Flora". Jacket Magazine 19. October 2002. 
• "Hydrosaurus". The Boston Review 32.1 (January/February 2007). Archived from the original on 2007-05-13. Retrieved 2015-02-18. 

Poetry Books

• Daughter of the Hangnail. New Issues Press. 1997. ISBN 978-0-932826-56-5. 
• The Bovine Two-Step. New Issues Press. 2002. ISBN 978-1-930974-22-7. 

Anthologies

• American Poetry: the Next Generation. Carnegie Mellon Press. 

References