Rebecca McClanahan's 10th book, The Tribal Knot, is forthcoming from Indiana University Press in 2013. A poet and nonfiction writer, she teaches in the MFA programs of Queens University and Rainier Writers Workhop.

Deep Light: New and Selected Poems 1987-2007 (Iris Press, 2009), The Riddle Song and Other Rememberings (University of Georgia Press, 2002), Naked As Eve (Copper Beech Press, 2000), The Intersection of X & Y (Copper Beech Press, 1996), One Word Deep (The Ashland Poetry Press, 1993)

Kiss Tomorrow Hello (Doubleday, 2006), Short Takes: Brief Encounters with Contemporary Nonfiction (Norton, 2005), Are You Experienced? Baby Boom Poets at Midlife (University of Iowa Press, 2003), Best American Essays College Edition (Houghton Mifflin, 2003), O Taste and See: Food Poems (Bottom Dog Press, 2003), Poetry Daily (Sourcebooks, 2003), Best American Essays (Houghton Mifflin, 2001), Boomer Girls: Poems by Women from the Baby Boom Generation (University of Iowa Press, 1999), In Brief: Short Takes on the Personal (Norton, 1999), Best American Poetry (Scribner, 1998), The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses XVIII (Pushcart Press, 1993), Mrs. Houdini (University Press of Florida, 1989)

Georgia Review, Gettysburg Review, Kenyon Review, Ms., Poetry, Shenandoah, Southern Review