Biography

Rebecca Dunham was born in Portsmouth, NH and raised in New England. She earned her BA from the University of Virginia, an MA from Hollins University, an MFA in Poetry from George Mason University, and her PhD from University of Missouri-Columbia. Her first book of poetry, The Miniature Room, won the 2006 T.S. Eliot Prize and was published by Truman State University Press. Currently, she is an assistant professor at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, IA. In 2005-2006 she was the Jay C. and Ruth Halls Fellow in Poetry at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Other awards include the 2005 Indiana Review Poetry Prize for her poem “Box Series,” and a 2005 Academy of American Poets Prize. Poems are forthcoming or have recently appeared in FIELD, The Antioch Review, The Iowa Review, Crab Orchard Review, and AGNI among others.