Rebecca Seiferle

Poet, translator, and editor Rebecca Seiferle earned a BA from SUNY and an MFA from Warren Wilson College. Her collections of poetry include The Ripped-Out Seam (1993), which was a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize; The Music We Dance To (1999), winner of the Cecil Hemley Award from the Poetry Society of America; Bitters (2001), which won both the Western States Book Award and a Pushcart Prize; and Wild Tongue (2007), winner of the Grub Street National Poetry Prize. She has translated poets such as César Vallejo, Alfonso D'Aquino, and Ernesto Lumbreras. Seiferle is the editor and publisher of the online literary magazine Drunken Boat, and her reviews have appeared in Harvard Review and Calyx, among others. 

Prize anthology mentions

Pushcart (Poetry) 2011*

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