Rebecca Hazelton
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Rebecca Hazelton Stafford | |
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| Born | June 20, 1978 Richmond, Virginia |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Master of Fine Arts, Doctor of Philosophy |
| Alma mater | Davidson College University of Notre Dame Florida State University |
| Genre | poetry |
| Notable works | Fair Copy |
| Notable awards | Ohio State University Press/The Journal Award in Poetry[1][2] |
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Rebecca Hazelton Stafford (born June 20, 1978, Richmond, Virginia) is an award-winning American poet, editor, and critic.[3]
Life
Hazelton is a graduate of Davidson College, where she received her Bachelor of Arts in English, University of Notre Dame, where she got her Master of Fine Arts in Poetry, and Florida State University where she received her Ph.D in English and Poetry. A former editor at The Southeast Review and Devil's Lake, she presently reviews contemporary poetry for Southern Indiana Review.[4][5] She was also in the English faculty of Beloit College from 2011 to 2012.[6] She was then on the creative writing faculty of Oklahoma State University.[7] Her poetry has been published in various journals such as FIELD, Pleiades, and The Sycamore Review.[8] Now she serves as assistant professor of English at North Central College.[9] Her poem “Letter to the Editor” was published in The New Yorker, issue dated May 16.[10][11]
Awards
- 2012, Cleveland State Poetry Center Open Competition Prize[12]
- 2012, Vinyl 45 Chapbook Prize, YesYesBooks[13]
- 2012, "Discovery"/Joan Leiman Jacobson Prize[14]
- 2011, Charles B. Wheeler Prize[15]
- 2011, Best New Poets selection (ed. D. A. Powell)[16]
- 2010, Jay C. and Ruth Hall Poetry Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Madison[17]
Works
Books
- Vow (Cleveland State University Press, 2013)
- Bad Star (YesYes Books, 2013)
- No Girls No Telephones (Black Lawrence Press, 2013)
- Fair Copy (Ohio State University Press, 2012)
Anthologies
Essays
- "Thirteen Ways of Looking at Genealogy, Ancestry, and the (Re)making of Selves," Michigan Quarterly Review (2012)[18]
- "On Lily Brown's Rust or Go Missing," Barn Owl Review (2011)[19]
- "On Simone Muench's Orange Crush," Devil's Lake (2010)[20]
Selected Poems
- "It's Springtime, Elise, and You're Missing All of It," Gettysburg Review (August 15, 2012)[21]
- "Elise Qua Elise," Everyday Genius (August 3, 2012)[22]
- "Gold Empire," Boston Review (May 1, 2012)[23]
- "Do Not Want," Sixth Finch (April 15, 2012)[24]
- "Revision: Elise"; two others, PANK Magazine (March 7, 2012)[25]
- "Three Poems", "CONJUNCTIONS: A Web Exclusive[26]
- "Book of Desire"; "Book of Excess," Anti- (February 5, 2012)[27]
- "Actual Animals," Verse Daily (January 8, 2012)[28]
- "You Make Me Touch Your Hands for Stupid Reasons," Ink Node (November 7, 2011)[29]
- "Questions About the Wife," Verse Daily (September 23, 2011)[30]
References
- ^ "Rebecca Hazelton". Poetry Foundation. n.d. Retrieved 21 August 2016.
- ^ "Rebecca Hazelton: "We'll Fix It In Post"". The Missouri Review. University of Missouri. 18 August 2014. Retrieved 21 August 2016.
- ^ Hazelton, Rebecca (4 April 2013). "Rebecca Hazelton". Poets & Writers. Retrieved 21 August 2016.
- ^ "Alumni". Department of English. University of Notre Dame. n.d. Retrieved 21 August 2016.
- ^ Hazelton, Rebecca (n.d.). "HobbyHorse". Southern Indiana Review. University of Southern Indiana. Archived from the original on 18 October 2014.
- ^ Author biography, Beloit College. https://www.beloit.edu/campus/news/?story_id=332186
- ^ Author biography, Cleveland State University Poetry Center. http://www.csuohio.edu/poetrycenter/openbook/
- ^ Author biography, Beloit College. https://www.beloit.edu/campus/news/?story_id=340373
- ^ Author biography, North Central College. http://northcentralcollege.edu/facultyprofile/rhstafford/ENG
- ^ Author biography, North Central College. https://northcentralcollege.edu/news/stafford%E2%80%99s-poetry-published-new-yorker
- ^ Letter to the Editor, The New Yorker. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/05/16/letter-to-the-editor-by-rebecca-hazelton
- ^ "Hazelton - Vow". Cleveland State University Poetry Center. Retrieved 5 November 2012.
- ^ "Hazelton - Bad Star". YesYes Books. Retrieved 5 November 2012.
- ^ "Hazelton - "Gold Empire"". Boston Review. Retrieved 5 November 2012.
- ^ "Hazelton - Fair Copy". Ohio State University Press. Retrieved 5 November 2012.
- ^ "Best New Poets 2011: 50 Poems from Emerging Writers". University of Virginia Press. Retrieved 5 November 2012.
- ^ "Hazelton - Current and Former Fellows". University of Wisconsin-Madison. Retrieved 5 November 2012.
- ^ "Thirteen Ways of Looking at Genealogy, Ancestry, and the (Re)making of Selves". Michigan Quarterly Review. 29 August 2012. Retrieved 21 August 2016.
{{cite web}}: Cite uses deprecated parameter|authors=(help) - ^ Hazelton, Rebecca (2011). "Lily Brown's Rust or Go Missing". Barn Owl Review. Retrieved 21 August 2016.
- ^ Hazelton, Rebecca (15 October 2010). "Simone Muench, Orange Crush". Devil's Lake. University of Wisconsin-Madison. Retrieved 21 August 2016.
- ^ http://www.gettysburgreview.com/selections/index.dot?inode=2985353&pageTitle=It%E2%80%99s%20Springtime,%20Elise,%20and%20You%E2%80%99re%20Missing%20All%20of%20It&crumbTitle=It%E2%80%99s%20Springtime,%20Elise,%20and%20You%E2%80%99re%20Missing%20All%20of%20It&author=Rebecca%20Hazelton&story=true
- ^ http://www.everyday-genius.com/2012/08/rebecca-hazelton.html
- ^ http://bostonreview.net/BR37.3/rebecca_hazelton.php
- ^ http://sixthfinch.com/hazelton1.html
- ^ http://www.pankmagazine.com/three-poems-22/
- ^ http://www.conjunctions.com/webcon/hazelton09.htm
- ^ http://anti-poetry.com/anti/hazeltonre/
- ^ http://www.versedaily.org/2011/actualanimals.shtml
- ^ http://www.inknode.com/piece/1091-rebecca-hazelton-you-make-me-touch-your-hands-for-stupid-reasons
- ^ http://www.versedaily.org/2011/questionwife.shtml
Further reading
- Memorious (June 26, 2012) [1]
- PANK Magazine (June 25, 2012) [2]
- Adkisson, Tory (13 April 2012). "Interview with Rebecca Hazelton". The Journal. Ohio State University.
- Beloit College (October 18, 2011) [3]