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About Rebecca

Rebecca Givens Rolland is the author of The Wreck of Birds (Bauhan Publishing, 2012), which won the 2011 May Sarton New Hampshire First Book Prize, as well as the chapbook On the Refusal to Speak (dancing girl press, 2012) and the chapbook The Vine of Somewhere (dancing girl press). She has a debut work of nonfiction forthcoming from HarperOne, a division of HarperCollins. She has received the Dana Award in Short Fiction, as well as the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, the Clapp Fellowship from Yale University, and an Academy of American Poets Prize. Her fiction has been published or upcoming in The Literary Review, North American Review, Slice, and Hobart, her poetry in The Kenyon Review, the Colorado Review, and the Cincinnati Review, and her nonfiction writing in Brain, Child Magazine and Education Week. She has a doctorate in education from Harvard and a master's degree in English from Boston University.

She teaches at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and serves as faculty and Module Director for Scientific Communication for a writing program at Harvard Medical School. She also consults as a nationally certified speech-language pathologist.