She taught English and creative writing for a number of years at
San Juan College and has taught at the Provincetown Fine Arts Center, Key West Literary Seminar,[2] Port Townsend Writer's Conference, Gemini Ink, the Stonecoast Master of Fine Arts program She has been poet-in-residence at
Brandeis University.
She has regularly reviewed for The Harvard Review and Calyx, and her work has appeared in Partisan Review, Boulevard, Prairie Schooner, The Southern Review, Alaska Quarterly Review,[3]Carolina Quarterly.[4] She is editor of The Drunken Boat.[5]
Her second collection, The Music We Dance To (Sheep Meadow 1999) won the 1998
Cecil Hemley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America.
Her third poetry collection, Bitters, published by
Copper Canyon Press, won the
Western States Book Award and a
Pushcart Prize.
Her translation of Vallejo's Trilce was a finalist for the 1992 PenWest Translation Award.
In 2004, she was awarded a literary fellowship from the
Lannan Foundation.[6] Rebecca Seiferle, in 2012, was declared the poet laureate of Tucson Arizona.