Rebecca Macijeski
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in English (Concentration in Creative Writing, Poetry), May 2017
University of Nebraska—Lincoln
Dissertation: Silence Emerging from Birds, a collection of poems
Committee: Ted Kooser, Kenneth Price, Tyler White, Grace Bauer (chair)
Qualifying Exam Areas: “Twentieth Century American Lyric Poetry” and “Persona Poetry in Sequence”
M.F.A. in Writing (Concentration in Poetry), July 2011
Vermont College of Fine Arts
Critical Thesis: “A Finite House for the Infinite: How Poems Awaken Us to the Present Moment”
Creative Thesis: Quantum Silence, a collection of poems
Graduating Lecture: “The Biology of Imagination”
B.A. in English and Music, magna cum laude, May 2007
Simmons College (now Simmons University)
CURRENT POSITION
Associate Professor and Coordinator of Creative Writing Programs, Department of English, Languages, and Cultural Studies, Northwestern State University
RESEARCH, TEACHING, & CREATIVE INTERESTS
American Poetry (Nineteenth Century through present), poetics, persona poetry, poems in sequence, multi-genre creative writing, creative nonfiction, literary editing, publishing
For full CV, click here. (Updated June 2023)