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)     

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CURRENT POSITION

Associate Professor and Coordinator of Creative Writing Programs, Department of English, Languages, and Cultural Studies, Northwestern State University

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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

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COLLECTIONS

 

Apocryphal Girl, forthcoming with Pinhole Poetry in 2024

Autobiography, Split Rock Press, November 2022

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For full CV, click here. (Updated June 2023)