Rebecca Seiferle is the author of four poetry collections, including Wild Tongue, which received the 2008 Grub Street National Book Prize in Poetry; Bitters, awarded the Pushcart Prize; and The Music We Dance To, which won the 1998 Cecil Hemley Award from the Poetry Society of America. Her first book, The Ripped-Out Seam, won the Bogin Award from the Poetry Society of America, the Writers’ Exchange Award from Poets & Writers, and the National Writers’ Union Prize. Seiferle lives in Tucson, Arizona, where she teaches in the English and fine arts departments.
Photograph by Melissa Buckheit.