Genre Poetry Name Rebecca Howell | Role Poet Books Render: An Apocalypse | |
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Born August 10, 1975 (age 49) Lexington, Kentucky ( 1975-08-10 ) | ||
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Rebecca Gayle Howell (born August 10, 1975 in Lexington, Kentucky) is an American writer and translator.
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- Education and career
- Works
- Awards
- Books
- References
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Education and career
Howell was born to a working-class family in Lexington, Kentucky on August 10, 1975 to Pauline Neace Howell and James Farris Howell. She earned her BA and her MA at the University of Kentucky, her MFA at Drew University, and her PhD at Texas Tech University. Howell also apprenticed under the Southern experimental art photographer and writer James Baker Hall, as well as the feminist poet and critic Alicia Ostriker. Other mentors include Carolyn Forché, Nikky Finney, Gerald Stern, Wendell Berry, and Jean Valentine. Among her awards is a 2014 Pushcart Prize and two poetry fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center.
In 2014, she joined the staff of The Oxford American as Poetry Editor.
Works
Howell's debut poetry collection Render / An Apocalypse was selected by Nick Flynn for the Cleveland State University Poetry Center First Book Prize in 2012 and was a finalist for ForeWord Review's Book of the Year.
Howell's second collection, American Purgatory, was selected by Don Share for The Sexton Prize and was released by Eyewear Publishing to both the United Kingdom and the United States in early 2017.
Howell is also the English translator of Amal al-Jubouri's verse memoir of the Iraq War, Hagar Before the Occupation/Hagar After the Occupation, which was a finalist for Three Percent's Best Translated Book Award.