Rebecca Reynolds (poet)

Rebecca Reynolds is an American poet.

Rebecca Reynolds
Born	Washington, D.C., U.S.
Occupation	Poet
Nationality	American
Education	Vassar College Rutgers University (MA) University of Michigan (MFA)
Notable awards	Hopwood Award Norma Farber First Book Award (1998)

Life

Reynolds was born in Washington, D.C., United States,^[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 Residential 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^[11]
• New Jersey State Council on the Arts grant^{[citation needed]}
• 1998 Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society for Daughter of the Hangnail^[12]

Works

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. 2000.