Rebecca is a poet and an English/creative writing professor at Augustana College in Rock Island, IL, where she has been teaching since 1994. Her poetry collection, Uncertain Grace, won the Hayden Carruth Award for New and Emerging Poets in 2001. In 2001 she was also awarded a Witter Bynner Fellowship by U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins and the Library of Congress, and she has served as the 2nd poet laureate of the Quad Cities. Her work has been published in journals and anthologies including Ploughshares and the Iowa Review, and she had an impatiently languishing second manuscript waiting for attention, titled Instead.
