Rebecca Hazelton

Rebecca Hazelton
Born	June 20, 1978 Richmond, Virginia
Occupation	Poet
Nationality	American
Education	Master of Fine Arts, Doctor of Philosophy

Rebecca Hazelton (born June 20, 1978, Richmond, Virginia) is an award-winning American poet, editor, and critic.^[1]

Life

Hazelton is a graduate of Davidson College, University of Notre Dame, and Florida State University. She is currently on the creative writing faculty of Oklahoma State University.^[2] A former editor at The Southeast Review and Devil's Lake, she presently reviews contemporary poetry for Southern Indiana Review.^[3][4]

Awards

• 2012, Cleveland State Poetry Center Open Competition Prize^[5]
• 2012, Vinyl 45 Chapbook Prize, YesYesBooks^[6]
• 2012, "Discovery"/Joan Leiman Jacobson Prize^[7]
• 2011, Charles B. Wheeler Prize^[8]
• 2011, Best New Poets selection (ed. D. A. Powell)^[9]
• 2010, Jay C. and Ruth Hall Poetry Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Madison^[10]

Works

Books

• Vow (Cleveland State University Press, 2013)
• Bad Star (YesYes Books, 2013)
• No Girls No Telephones (Black Lawrence Press, 2013)
• Fair Copy (Ohio State University Press, 2012)

Anthologies

• Best New Poets 2011 (University of Virginia Press, 2011)

Interviews

• Memorious (June 26, 2012)
• PANK Magazine (June 25, 2012)
• The Journal (May 15, 2012)
• Beloit College (October 18, 2011)

Essays

• "Thirteen Ways of Looking at Genealogy, Ancestry, and the (Re)making of Selves," Michigan Quarterly Review (2012)
• "On Lily Brown's Rust or Go Missing," Barn Owl Review (2011)
• "On Simone Muench's Orange Crush," Devil's Lake (2010)

Selected Poems

• "It's Springtime, Elise, and You're Missing All of It," Gettysburg Review (August 15, 2012)
• "Elise Qua Elise," Everyday Genius (August 3, 2012)
• "Gold Empire," Boston Review (May 1, 2012)
• "Do Not Want," Sixth Finch (April 15, 2012)
• "Revision: Elise"; two others, PANK Magazine (March 7, 2012)
• "Book of Desire"; "Book of Excess," Anti- (February 5, 2012)
• "Actual Animals," Verse Daily (January 8, 2012)
• "You Make Me Touch Your Hands for Stupid Reasons," Ink Node (November 7, 2011)
• "Questions About the Wife," Verse Daily (September 23, 2011)

References

1. Author biography, Poets & Writers. http://www.pw.org/content/rebecca_hazelton
2. Author biography, Cleveland State University Poetry Center. http://www.csuohio.edu/poetrycenter/openbook/
3. Author biography, University of Notre Dame. http://english.nd.edu/creative-writing/people/alumni/#H
4. "Hobbyhorse," Southern Indiana Review. http://www.usi.edu/sir/hobbyhorse/
5. "Hazelton - Vow". Cleveland State University Poetry Center. Retrieved 5 November 2012.
6. "Hazelton - Bad Star". YesYes Books. Retrieved 5 November 2012.
7. "Hazelton - "Gold Empire"". Boston Review. Retrieved 5 November 2012.
8. "Hazelton - Fair Copy". Ohio State University Press. Retrieved 5 November 2012.
9. "Best New Poets 2011: 50 Poems from Emerging Writers". University of Virginia Press. Retrieved 5 November 2012.
10. "Hazelton - Current and Former Fellows". University of Wisconsin-Madison. Retrieved 5 November 2012.