About the Instructor/Moderator

Rebecca Morgan Frank Rebecca Morgan Frank is the author of four books of poetry: Oh You Robot Saints! (2021), Sometimes We’re All Living in a Foreign Country (2017), and The Spokes of Venus (2016), all from Carnegie Mellon University Press, and Little Murders Everywhere (Salmon Poetry, 2012), shortlisted for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Her poetry has appeared such places as The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, Poetry Ireland, and the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day. Her collaborations with composers are performed and exhibited across the country. She is the recipient of the Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay di Castagnola Award, a Meier Achievement Award, a Mississippi Arts Commission Fellowship in Poetry, a Richard S. and Julia Louise Reynolds Fellowship for the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and fellowships from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and The Ragdale Foundation. She holds an MFA from Emerson College and a doctorate from the University of Cincinnati, where she was an Elliston Poetry Fellow, and she has taught in graduate programs at UC Irvine, Northwestern University, Bowling Green State University, and the University of Southern Mississippi. Co-founder and editor-in-chief of the online magazine Memorious, Frank lives outside of Chicago, where she serves on the board of the National Book Critics Circle and is a reviewer for the Poetry Foundation's Harriet Books.

Accessibility Information

Their work is regularly exhibited internationally and is in the permanent collections of over 60 museums. Over the past fifteen years, they have built a sustainable career as a visual artist and have extensive experience working with museums, galleries, universities and nonprofit organizations, publishers, and press outlets. In addition to their own creative work, they are passionate about sharing the professional knowledge they’ve acquired throughout their career with other artists.