Rebecca Seiferle is an American

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Life

Seiferle has a BA from the

State University of New York The State University of New York (SUNY, , ) is a system of public colleges and universities in the State of New York. It is one of the largest comprehensive system of universities, colleges, and community colleges in the United States. Led by ...

with a major in English and History, and a minor in Art History. In 1989, she received her MFA from

Warren Wilson College Warren Wilson College (WWC) is a private liberal arts college in Swannanoa, North Carolina. It is known for its curriculum that combines academics, work, and service as every student must complete a requisite course of study, work an on-campus ...

. She taught English and creative writing for a number of years at

San Juan College San Juan College is a public community college in Farmington, New Mexico. Founded in 1956 as a branch of the New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts, San Juan College became an independent community college following a county ele ...

and has taught at the Provincetown Fine Arts Center, Key West Literary Seminar,
Port Townsend Writer's Conference, Gemini Ink, the Stonecoast MFA program She has been poet-in-residence at

Brandeis University Brandeis University is a Private university, private research university in Waltham, Massachusetts. Founded in 1948 as a nonsectarian, non-sectarian, coeducational institution sponsored by the Jews, Jewish community, Brandeis was established on t ...

. She has regularly reviewed for ''The Harvard Review'' and ''Calyx'', and her work has appeared in ''Partisan Review'', ''Boulevard'', ''Prairie Schooner'', ''The Southern Review'', ''Alaska Quarterly Review'', ''Carolina Quarterly''. She is editor of ''The Drunken Boat''. She lives with her family in Tucson, Arizona.

Awards

Her first book, ''The Ripped-Out Seam'' won the Bogin Award from the

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, the Writers' Exchange Award from

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, and the

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Prize, and was a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize. Her second collection, ''The Music We Dance To'' (Sheep Meadow 1999) won the 1998

Cecil Hemley Memorial Award The Cecil Hemley Memorial Award is given once a year to a member of the Poetry Society of America "for a lyric poem that addresses a philosophical or epistemological concern.""PSA Annual Awards Guidelines" Web page at the Web site of the Poetry Soc ...

from the Poetry Society of America. Her third poetry collection, ''Bitters'', published by

Copper Canyon Press Copper Canyon Press is an independent, non-profit small press, founded in 1972 specializing exclusively in the publication of poetry. It is located in Port Townsend, Washington. Copper Canyon Press publishes new collections of poetry by both popu ...

, won the

Western States Book Award Western States Book Award honored notable works of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and translation written and published in the Western United States. The award was given annually from 1984 until 2002. Lifetime-achievement awards were also p ...

and a

Pushcart Prize The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize published by Pushcart Press that honors the best "poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot" published in the small presses over the previous year. Magazine and small book press editors ar ...

. Her translation of Vallejo's ''Trilce'' was a finalist for the 1992 PenWest Translation Award. In 2004, she was awarded a literary fellowship from the

Lannan Foundation The Lannan Literary Awards are a series of awards and literary fellowships given out in various fields by the Lannan Foundation. Established in 1989, the awards are meant "to honor both established and emerging writers whose work is of exceptional ...

. Rebecca Seiferle, in 2012, was declared the poet laureate of Tucson Arizona.

Works

''THE CUSTOM''; ''HOW TO SPEAK IN BABYLON''; ''DOCUMENTARIES''; ''THE RIPPED-OUT SEAM'', wisewomensweb"Law of Inertia", ''pif Magazine''
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*''The Gift'', Copper Canyon Press (2001)
"Wild Tongue"

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, 2008.

Poetry

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Translations

* * ''Trilce'', César Vallejo, Sheep Meadow Press 1992

Anthologies

*''Best American Poetry 2000'', Scribner's, * *''Reversible Monuments: Contemporary Mexican Poetry'' (

2002), translations of Alfonso D'Aquino and Ernesto Lumbreras *''Saludos: Poemas de Nuevo Mexico'', Pennywhistle Press *''New Mexico Poetry Renaissance'', edited by Miriam Sagan and Sharon Neiderman, Red Crane Press, *''The Sheep Meadow Anthology''. *''Pushcart Prize XXVII'', Pushcart Press, 2003,

References

External links

"Interview to Rebecca Seiferle", Anny Ballardini, fieralingue
{{DEFAULTSORT:Seiferle, Rebecca Year of birth missing (living people) Living people State University of New York alumni Warren Wilson College alumni San Juan College faculty 20th-century American poets American women poets 21st-century American poets 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American women writers Writers from Tucson, Arizona Poets from Arizona American women academics Municipal Poets Laureate in the United States