ANNOUNCEMENTS

Indiana University Press will publish Rebecca'a newest nonfiction book, The Tribal Knot, as part of its "Break Away" Book Series. Excerpts of the manuscript, for which Rebecca received a 2011 literary fellowship from the North Carolina Arts Council and an award, are forthcoming in The Kenyon Review and The Gettysburg Review.



2012 WORKSHOPS & TALKS

February 1
Rebecca will read with other Kenyon Review writing instructors at the AWP Conference in Chicago.
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April 21 and 28
Rebecca will conduct a multi-genre workshop, Word Painting: Writing More Descriptively, at Queens University, Charlotte, N.C.
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June 6-11
Rebecca will read from her work, deliver craft talks, and lead the nonfiction workshop at the Gettysburg Review Workshop for Writers in Gettysburg, PA.
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June 16-23
Rebecca will lead the nonfiction class at the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop in Gambier, OH.
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PUBLICATIONS FORTHCOMING
New essays and poems forthcoming in:
River Teeth, Bellingham Review, Kenyon Review, Tampa Review, Gettysburg Review, and Cave Wall.

RECENTLY PUBLISHED

Two of Rebecca's newest poems, "What If the River" and "Aging Woman on Horse," appear in Connotation Press: An Online Artifact.

New work by Rebecca appears in the current issue of FUGUE


Rebecca’s essay “Considering the Lilies” is reprinted in a new anthology, The Writer’s Portable Mentor, alongside writers David Shields, Diane Ackerman, and Michael Ondaatje.

• Rebecca's poem "To the Absent Wife of the Beautiful Poet at the Writers' Conference" appears in Readings for Writers, a 70th anniversary anthology of selections that appeared in The Kenyon Review including work by Dylan Thomas, Sylvia Plath, and Flannery O'Connor.




• Rebecca's essay "Interstellar," cited as notable in Best American Essays, appears alongside essays by David Sedaris, Amy Tan, John McPhee, and others in the newly released Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction (Simon & Schuster)




• “Liferower” appears as one of three model essays (alongside works by Brian Doyle and Scott Russell Sanders) in Creative Writing: Four Genres in Brief, a new text that spans poetry, creative nonfiction, short plays, and stories. Bedford/St. Martin, To order

See a sampling of other anthologies where Rebecca's work appears.

HEAR POEMS FROM DEEP LIGHT

• Garrison Keillor selects four poems from Deep Light for the The Writer's Almanac
Teaching A Nephew to Type (mp3)
Watching My Parents Sleeping Beside An Open Window Near the Sea (mp3)

Hear Keillor read two more poems from Deep Light.