Rebecca Seiferle

Rebecca Seiferle is an American poet.

Life Seiferle has a BA from the University of the State of New York with a major in English and History, and a minor in Art History. In 1989, she received her Master of Fine Arts from Warren Wilson College. Port Townsend Writer's Conference, Gemini Ink, the Stonecoast Master of Fine Arts program She has been poet-in-residence at Brandeis University.

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 Poetry Society of America, the Writers' Exchange Award from Poets & Writers, and the National Writers Union 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 from the Poetry Society of America. Her third poetry collection, Bitters, published by Copper Canyon Press, won the Western States Book Award and a Pushcart Prize. 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. 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

"Room of Dust", Santa Fe Poetry Broadside, Issue #11, September, 1999 The Gift, Copper Canyon Press (2001) "Wild Tongue", Narrative Magazine, 2008.

Poetry

Translations

Trilce, César Vallejo, Sheep Meadow Press 1992

Anthologies Best American Poetry 2000, Scribner's,

Reversible Monuments: Contemporary Mexican Poetry (Copper Canyon Press 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,