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, Pinhole Poetry, May 2024
Autobiography, Split Rock Press, November 2022
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For full CV, click here. (Updated May 2024)