Rebecca Seiferle

REBECCA SEIFERLE was named Tucson Poet Laureate in 2012. Her most recent poetry collection, Wild Tongue, won the 2008 Grub Street National Poetry Prize. She has three previous collections: Bitters won the Western States Book Award and a Pushcart Prize; The Music We Dance To won the Hemley Award; and The Ripped-Out Seam won the Bogin Memorial Award, The National Writer’s Union Prize, and the Poets & Writers Exchange Award. Rebecca was awarded a Lannan Foundation Fellowship in 2004. She is a noted translator and the founding editor of The Drunken Boat. She teaches at Southwest University of Visual Arts.