Rebecca Reynolds was born and raised in Washington D.C. She has published two books of poetry, Daughter of the Hangnail and The Bovine Two-Step (New Issues Press). Her first book received the 1998 Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. Her poems have appeared in several journals, print and online, including Quarterly West, Boston Review of Books, Verse, Cimarron Review, Web Conjunctions, American Letters and Commentary, the Literary Review, The Spoon River Poetry Review, Notre Dame Review, Third Coast, and Journal of New Jersey Poets, among others. She received her BA from Vassar College, an MA in English Literature from Rutgers University, and an MFA from the University of Michigan. She received a Hopwood Award for poetry and a New Jersey State Council on the Arts grant and worked as a dean of advising at Rutgers College-New Brunswick, NJ for 30 years, teaching Creative Writing and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. In 2021, she retired from her full-time position at Rutgers to teach Creative Writing, publish a backlog of poems, and write. She lives in Phillipsburg, New Jersey, a patchwork town directly across the Delaware River from Easton, PA with her wife, cats, garden, toads, rabbits, and other wildlife.