Rebecca Wee
Born:
Connection to Illinois: Wee currently holds the post of Associate Professor on the English faculty at Augustana College in Rock Island. She served as Quad Cities poet laureate from 2003-2005. Biography: Rebecca Wee is a former editor of The Minnesota Review, she earned her MFA from George Mason University and has received several awards for her poetry. She served as editorial assistant to Carolyn Forche on her 1993 anthology Against Forgetting: Twentieth Century Poetry of Witness.
Awards:
- Uncertain Grace 2000 Hayden Carruth Award for New and Emerging Poets
WorldCat: http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=Rebecca++Wee
Selected Titles
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Uncertain Grace ISBN: 1556591543 OCLC: 46729389 Copper Canyon Press 2001 Winner of the 2000 Hayden Carruth Award for New and Emerging Poets. Rebecca Wee's award-winning debut is a moody and lyrical mosaic where the reader is presented multiple and simultaneous points of reality. As line after line gathers details from the world, Wee's poems build in momentum, give voice to the silenced, and explore the poet's impulse to create art that transcends suffering. |