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Rebecca Kaiser Gibson [1]

Listed as: 
Poet
Public address: 
Marlborough, NH
New Hampshire US
Email: 
Rebeccagibson55@gmail.com
Bio: 

Rebecca Kaiser Gibson is the author the novel  The Promise of a Normal Life (Arcade Publishing, 2023), and two poetry collections: Girl as Birch, 2022 and  Opinel, 2015 (Bauhan Publishing,) and two chapbooks, Admit the Peacock and Inside the Exhibition. She is the recipient of residencies from MacDowell, The Heinrich Böll Cottage in Ireland, Vermont Studio Center and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts.  She received a fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and was selected as a Fulbright Scholar to teach poetry in Hyderabad, India.  She is founder and director of The Loom, Poetry in Harrisville, a poetry reading series in New Hampshire.

Her poems have appeared in The Adroit Journal; Agni; Field; The Greensboro Review; Green Mountains Review; The Harvard Review; The Massachusetts Review; Ocean State Review; Salamander; Slate; and featured in VerseDaily among others.

Rebecca lives in Marlborough, NH and taught poetry at Tufts University for 23 years.

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
In which languages are you fluent?: 
English
Born in: 
Washington, DC
Raised in: 
MD
Maryland
Website: 
https://www.rebeccakaisergibson.com [2]
Prizes won: 

Artists Fellowship in Poetry, Massachusetts Cultural Council

 

Education: 
Boston University
What I'm reading now: 
Dark Elderberry Branch by Marina Tsvetaeva, via Ilya Kaminsky and Jean Valentine
Writers Retreats: 
Brattleboro Literary Festival
Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference
The Frost Place
GrubStreet Muse & the Marketplace
MacDowell
Vermont Studio Center
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
Identifies as: 
American
Jewish

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Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/rebecca_kaiser_gibson [2] https://www.rebeccakaisergibson.com