Rebecca Morgan Frank is the author of four collections of poetry: Oh You Robot Saints! (Carnegie Mellon, 2021); Sometimes We're All living in a Foreign Country (Carnegie Mellon, 2017), The Spokes of Venus (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2016). and Little Murders Everywhere (Salmon Poetry, 2012), a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and her manuscript-in-progress received the Poetry Society of America’s 2010 Alice Fay di Castagnola Award. Her poems have appeared in such places as The New Yorker, Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, Guernica, Orion, the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, and on the Slowdown podcast. Her collaborations with composers have been performed and exhibited across the U.S.  She is the recipient of fellowships from such places as the Mississippi Arts Commission, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and the Ragdale Foundation. She is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Memorious: An Online Journal of New Verse & Fiction. She has taught across the country, including as Distinguished Visiting Writer in poetry at Bowling Green State University; Jacob Ziskind Poet in Residence at Brandeis University; and assistant professor at the University of Southern Mississippi's center for Writers. She currently teaches in the MFA Program in Prose & Poetry at Northwestern University's School of Professional Studies and in OSU Cascades low-residency MFA program. She serves on the board of the National Book Critics Circle and writes in Hemingway's childhood attic as the Hemingway Foundation's Writer-in-residence.

Website: www.rebeccamorganfrank.com

Twitter Username: @poetmorgan

Publications

• Oh You Robot Saints! , Carnegie Mellon University Press (February 19, 2021)
• Sometimes We're All Living in a Foreign Country , Carnegie Mellon University Press (October 2017)
• The Spokes of Venus , Carnegie Mellon University Press (February 2016)
• Little Murders Everywhere , Salmon Poetry (February 2012)

Awards

• Poetry Society of America's Alice Fay di Castagnola Award(2010)
• AWP Intro Award(2009)
• Finalist, Kate Tufts Discovery Award(2013)
• Mississippi Arts Commission Fellowship in Poetry(2016)
• Meier Achievement Award(2021)

Employment

• Assistant Professor at University of Southern Mississippi (August 2012 - June 2016)
• Jacob ZIskind Poet in Residence at Brandeis University (September 2016 - May 2018)
• Distinguished Visiting Writer at Bowling Green State University (2019 - )

Degrees

• Bachelor of Arts in English from Vassar College
• Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Emerson College
• Doctoral Degree in English & Creative Writing from University of Cincinnati (2012)