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Rebecca Reynolds is an American poet.

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 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^{[ citation needed]}

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.

References