About

Rebecca Morgan Frank is the author of four collections 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 manuscript-in-progress was selected by Marilyn Hacker for the Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay di Castagnola Award. Her poems appear in such places as The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, Poetry Ireland, Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, and The Slowdown Show, and her collaborations with composers have been performed and exhibited across the country.

Her other honors include the Meier Achievement Award and fellowships from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Ragdale Foundation, the Mississippi Arts Commission, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, the Hemingway Birthplace in Oak Park, where she served as writer-in-residence. Her short stories can be found in such places as Catapult, Joyland, Swing, and Prairie Schooner. A previous reviewer for The Poetry Foundation’s Harriet Books, Frank currently writes a poetry column for Lit Hub, and has published reviews and articles in such places as The Los Angeles Review of Books, Alta, Black Camera: An International Film Journal, and The American Sonnet: An Anthology of Poems and Essays.

Frank holds 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; as the Jacob Ziskind Poet-in-Residence at Brandeis University; and as an assistant professor in The Center for Writers, the doctoral program at the University of Southern Mississippi. Co-founder and editor-in-chief of the online magazine Memorious, which ran from 2004-2023, Frank is serving her final year on the working Board of Directors of the National Book Critics Circle and is an assistant professor at Lewis University. She lives in Chicago.