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Rebecca Wee is an American poet, and associate professor of creative writing.


Biography

Rebecca Wee graduated from
St. Olaf College St. Olaf College is a private liberal arts college in Northfield, Minnesota. It was founded in 1874 by a group of Norwegian-American pastors and farmers led by Pastor Bernt Julius Muus. The college is named after the King and the Patron Saint Olaf ...
in 1984. She later attended
George Mason University George Mason University (George Mason, Mason, or GMU) is a public research university in Fairfax County, Virginia with an independent City of Fairfax, Virginia postal address in the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area. The university was origin ...
where she studied poetry and served as editorial assistant to Carolyn Forche on her 1993 anthology ''Against Forgetting: Twentieth Century Poetry of Witness''. Rebecca Wee currently holds the post of Associate Professor on the English faculty at
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, Rock Island, Illinois, where she teaches composition, literature, poetry workshops, and independent studies in poetry and creative writing. Her first book of poems, ''Uncertain Grace'', received the 2000 Hayden Carruth Award for New and Emerging Poets and was subsequently published in 2001 by Copper Canyon Press. In 2003 she was chosen by U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins to receive one of two annual Witter Bynner fellowships in poetry, supported by the Library of Congress and the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry. From 2003–2005 Wee served as the second Poet Laureate of the Quad Cities.


Books

* ''
Uncertain Grace Uncertain may refer to: * Uncertain, Texas, a town in the United States * ''Uncertain'' (album), 1991 album of The Cranberries * Uncertain, a music project of Florian-Ayala Fauna * ''Hoplodrina octogenaria ''Hoplodrina octogenaria'', the unce ...
'', ( Copper Canyon Press, 2001),


References


External links


Library of Congress Page - includes audio



Copper Canyon Press Catalog Page

Augustana College Faculty Biography page
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