Rebecca Frank
Instructor
About Rebecca
Rebecca Morgan Frank is the author of four collections of poems: Oh You Robot Saints! (2021), Sometimes We're All Living in a Foreign Country (2017), and The Spokes of Venus (2016), all from Carnegie Mellon University Press, and Little Murders Everywhere (Salmon 2012), finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Her poems have recently appeared in such places as The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Pleiades, The Southern Review, On the Seawall, and the Academy of America Poets' Poem-a-Day. She is the recipient of the Poetry Society of America's Alice Fay di Castagnola Award and fellowships from such places as the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, the Writers' Room of Boston, and the Mississippi Arts Commission. She holds an MFA from Emerson College and a PhD in creative writing and literature from the University of Cincinnati. She has extensive experience teaching graduate and undergraduate students, including as Distinguished Visiting Writer at Bowling Green State University; Jacob Ziskind Poet in Residence at Brandeis University; tenure-track graduate faculty at the University of Southern Mississippi; and at Emerson College. She teaches for the MFA program at Northwestern University's School of Professional Studies. Co-founder and editor of the literary magazine Memorious.org, she is an incoming board member for the National Book Critics Circle.