Rebecca Black's first book, "Cottonlandia," won the 2004 Juniper Prize.  A former Wallace Stegner and NEA fellow, in 2011 she was an inaugural Fulbright Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Seamus Heaney Center for Poetry in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She has received residencies from Ledig House/Art Omi, the Cite International des Arts in Paris, and Hambidge. Her work appears in Poetry, Poetry Daily, New England Review, Blackbird, Agni and many other journals.  For fifteen years, she taught creative writing at Indiana University, Stanford, Santa Clara, and most recently in the MFA program at UNC Greensboro.  Originally from Albany, Georgia, she lives in Albany, California where she served a double term as the city’s 2016-2020 Poet Laureate. 

Interview at Blackbird with editor Gregory Donovan.

Rebecca can be contacted at rebeccalouiseblack@gmail.com.