Bio
(MA 2003, Poetry) is the author of two poetry collections: The Book of Hulga (2016), winner of the Felix Pollak Prize, and The Alphabet Conspiracy (2011), winner of the 2012 Drake Emerging Writers Award. Her poetry has been anthologized in Robert Olen Butler’s From Where You Dream: The Process of Writing Fiction (2005) and Poetry From Sojourner: A Feminist Anthology (2004). Her honors include a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, the Paumanok Poetry Award, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, and a Discovery/the Nation award.
First Name
Rita Mae
Last Name
Reese
Full Name
Rita Mae Reese
Grad Year
2003