Rebecca Morgan Frank

Rebecca Morgan Frank was born and raised in Virginia. She earned an MFA from Emerson College and a PhD from the University of Cincinnati, where she was an Elliston Poetry Fellow. Frank is the author of the poetry collections Oh You Robot Saints! (2021); Sometimes We’re All Living in a Foreign Country (2017); The Spokes of Venus (2016); and Little Murders Everywhere (2012), shortlisted for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Her poetry and prose have appeared widely in magazines and journals including the New Yorker, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, the Kenyon Review, the Southern Review, and Poetry Ireland, and her collaborations with composers have been performed and exhibited across the country.

Frank's awards and honors include the Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay di Castagnola Award, a Meier Achievement Award, and a Mississippi Arts Commission Fellowship in Poetry, as well as fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Ragdale Foundation.

Cofounder and editor of the online literary journal Memorious, Frank has taught at Brandeis University, Bowling Green State University, the University of Southern Mississippi’s Center for Writers, and Northwestern University. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of the National Book Critics Circle and is a reviewer for Harriet Books.