Rebecca Brock

Rebecca Brock’s chapbook, Each Bearing Out (Kelsay Books, 2022) was a semifinalist in the 2021 New Women’s Voices contest at Finishing Line Press. Her work can be found at CALYX, Literary Mama, River Heron Review, Rust + Moth, Whale Road Review and elsewhere. She earned her MFA in literature and fiction at Bennington College in 2004. Recently, her poetry won The Comstock Review’s Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Poetry Contest, judged by Ellen Bass, the Women’s Poetry Contest at Kelsay Books, judged by Katie Manning, and two Editor’s Choice Awards from Sheila-Na-Gig Online. Her poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. She was a recipient of a MacDowell Colony Fellowship in 2005 and a Virginia  Commission for the Arts Fellowship in 2006. Her nonfiction essay about being a working flight attendant on 9/11 was published in the Threepenny Review and earned a Puschart Honorable Mention. She has been a flight attendant for most of her adult life and is still surprised by this fact. Idaho born, she lives in Virginia with her family.  You can find more of her work at RebeccaBrock.org.