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Rebecca Kaiser Gibson

Birth Year
b. 1946
Current City
Marlborough, New Hampshire, USA
Birth City
Washington DC, USA
Genre(s)
Nonfiction, Fiction, Literary Criticism
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Photo credit: Photo Credit: Jo Eldredge Morrissey

Biography

Rebecca Kaiser Gibson’s poetry collections are Girl as Birch (2022), and OPINEL (2015) from Bauhan Publishing. Her poems appear in Agni, Barrow Street, Field, Green Mountains Review, Greensboro Review, Interim, Harvard Review, Massachusetts Review, Ocean State Review, Passengers, Salamander, Slate, Tupelo Quarterly, The Antigonish Review, and VerseDaily, among others. Her first novel, The Promise of a Normal Life is forthcoming from Arcade Publishing, 2023. She’s received fellowships from MacDowell, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, Vermont Studio Center, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and was a Fulbright Scholar teaching poetry in India. After teaching poetry at Tufts University for 23 years, she founded The Loom, Poetry in Harrisville, a poetry reading series.

Published Works

Poetry (full-length collections)
Girl as Birch (Bauhan Publishing, 2022)
OPINEL (Bauhan Publishing, 2015)

Poetry (chapbooks)
Inside the Exhibition (Roundy Wells Press, 2006)
Admit the Peacock (Roundy Wells Press, 2006)

Novels
The Promise of a Normal Life (Arcade Publishing, 2023)

Links to Sample Works

Subject Matter

Aging, Antisemitism, Art & Ekphrasis, Childhood, Cultural Identity, Death, Family, Friendship, Gender, Loss, Love, Marriage, Nature, Sex, Whiteness, Feminism.