| Rebecca Black is a poet and writer. She is the Director of Creative Writing at Santa Clara, and teaches the poetry workshops on campus. She is also a faculty advisor for the Santa Clara Review, the student-run literary magazine. Her first book, Cottonlandia, winner of the Juniper Prize in Poetry from the University of Massachusetts Press, was published in 2005. Individual poems have appeared in Poetry, Poetry Daily, Virginia Quarterly Review, Missouri Review, Bellingham Review, Conjunctions, Pleiades, and other magazines. Text and audio versions of her work may be found online at fishhousepoems.org. Online links to her work including interviews and articles include:
http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v6n2/nonfiction/black_r/interview.htm
Interview from Blackbird Magazine
http://www.vqronline.org/author/19/rebecca-black/
Poems from Virginia Quarterly Review
She has received residencies from Ledig House/Art Omi and the Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris. Recently, she has been an invited panelist at the Southern Women Writers’ conference, the Tennessee Williams Literary Festival, and the Associated Writing Programs conference, where presentations and readings have included topics like “Southern Expatriate Writers,” “Poetry and Politics,” and “The Land as Home: a Reading.” Originally from Albany, Georgia, she received an M.F.A from Indiana University in 2002. From 2001-2003, she was Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. She holds a B.A. from Newcomb College of Tulane University in English and Art History. Her scholarly interests include twentieth-century American poetry and poetics, regional American poetries, the genre of literary nonfiction, and the convergence of these interests with forms of new media. | 
