Rebecca Seiferle

• Name — Rebecca Seiferle • Occupation — Poet, translator, educator • Education — BA, University of the State of New York (English & History, Art History minor); MFA, Warren Wilson College • Notable Works — The Ripped-Out Seam, The Music We Dance To, Bitters, Wild Tongue • Awards — Bogin Award (Poetry Society of America), Writers' Exchange Award, National Writers Union Prize, Cecil Hemley Memorial Award, Western States Book Award, Pushcart Prize, Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship Rebecca Seiferle is an American poet.

Seiferle has a BA from the University of the State of New York with a major in English and History, and a minor in Art History. In 1989, she received her Master of Fine Arts from Warren Wilson College. 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, 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, Carolina Quarterly. She is editor of The Drunken Boat. She lives with her family in Tucson, Arizona.

• THE CUSTOM; HOW TO SPEAK IN BABYLON; DOCUMENTARIES; THE RIPPED-OUT SEAM, wisewomensweb • "Law of Inertia", pif Magazine * * * • "Room of Dust", Santa Fe Poetry Broadside, Issue #11, September, 1999 • The Gift, Copper Canyon Press (2001) • "Wild Tongue", Narrative Magazine, 2008.

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* • Trilce, César Vallejo, Sheep Meadow Press 1992

• Best American Poetry 2000, Scribner's, * • Reversible Monuments: Contemporary Mexican Poetry (Copper Canyon Press 2002), translations of Alfonso D'Aquino and Ernesto Lumbreras • Saludos: Poemas de Nuevo Mexico, Pennywhistle Press • New Mexico Poetry Renaissance, edited by Miriam Sagan and Sharon Neiderman, Red Crane Press, • The Sheep Meadow Anthology. • Pushcart Prize XXVII, Pushcart Press, 2003,