About

Rebecca Morgan Frank is the author of four books of poetry: Oh You Robot Saints!, one of the New York Public Library’s Best Books of 2021; Sometimes We’re All Living in a Foreign Country; The Spokes of Venus; and Little Murders Everywhere, shortlisted for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Her poems have appeared such places as The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, Orion, Ecotone, Harvard Review, New England Review, and The Slowdown Show, and her stories in such places as Joyland, Catapult, Swing, and Prairie Schooner. Her collaborations with composers have been performed and exhibited across the country. She is the recipient of such honors as The Meier Achievement Award and the Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay di Castagnola Award, as well as fellowships from such places as The Ragdale Foundation, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Mississippi Arts Commission, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Brandeis University, and Emory University’s MARBL Library. A previous reviewer for The Poetry Foundation’s Harriet Books, Frank currently writes a poetry review column for Lit Hub.

Frank was born in Charlottesville, Virginia. She holds a BA from Vassar College, an MFA from Emerson College, and a doctorate from the University of Cincinnati, where she was an Elliston Poetry Fellow and a Taft Dissertation Fellow. She has taught widely, including in MFA programs at Cornell University, UC Irvine, and Northwestern University; the doctoral creative writing program at the University of Southern Mississippi; and as the Jacob Ziskind Poet-in-Residence at Brandeis University. Co-founder and editor-in-chief of the online magazine Memorious, which ran from 2004-2023, Frank serves on the working Board of Directors of the National Book Critics Circle and is an Assistant Professor at Lewis University. She lives in Chicago.