Rebecca Reynolds has published two books of poetry, Daughter of the Hangnail (New Issues Press, 1997) and The Bovine Two-Step (New Issues Press, 2002). Her first collection received the 1998 Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. Her third collection ("Otherly")  received the 2023 poetry award from 42 Miles Press and is forthcoming in Fall 2025. Her poems have appeared in several journals, both print and online, including Quarterly West, Boston Review of Books, Cimarron Review, Web Conjunctions, American Letters and Commentary, The Literary Review, The Spoon River Poetry Review, and others. She received a Hopwood Award for Poetry from the University of Michigan and a New Jersey State Council on the Arts grant. Over the last 30 years, she has served as an assistant dean of academic advising and a part-time lecturer in women's, gender, and sexuality studies and in creative writing at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. In 2021, she left her full-time position to work as a part-time lecturer in creative writing and devote more time to writing and publishing. She lives with her wife and cats on the northwestern edge of New Jersey, close to the Delaware River and the old towns, farmland, valleys, cliffs, and mountains of Western New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania. 

Otherly

Preorder: https://wolfsonpress.com/rebecca-reynolds-otherly-pre-order/

 2023 Winner of the 42 Miles Press Poetry Award
by Rebecca Reynolds
paperback, 120 pages
2025
--9/19/25

Selected Online Works

​Sheila Na Gig

​Many Nice Donkeys: https://www.manynicedonkeys.com/volume-i-issue-ii

Conjunctions Online: https://conjunctions.com/articles/rebecca-reynolds-04-03-2006/

​​Journal of New Jersey Poets

Jacket Magazine

​Boston Review​​

Rejoinder

Rough Diamond Poetry, https://roughdiamondpoetry.com/columna-vertabralis-rebecca-reynolds/

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Contact: rebecca.reynolds533@gmail.com