Bio

Rebecca Watkins earned her M.F.A. in Creative Writing and her M.S. Ed from the City University of New York. An educator for nearly two decades, she has led writing workshops and classes for all ages, ranging from adults to an auditorium full of elementary school students. She has also successfully coached clients writing memoir, essays, and poetry. 
 

In 2015, she was awarded a residency in San Pedro Sula, Honduras at the Our Little Rose Orphanage and school where she taught English and poetry. Later, as a high school teacher in the Bronx, she worked with the Student Press Initiative at Columbia University to compile and edit a book of poetry written by her students titled Voices for Equality. During this time, presented a program called “Teaching Students How to Write Imaginative and Original Poetry” at the New York City Writing Project Teachers Conference. From 2014-2020 she was a poetry editor for the former River River Literary Journal based in the Hudson Valley.

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In addition to her background in education and writing, she has also lived and worked on the Navajo Reservation in New Mexico, became a certified yoga instructor at an ashram in the mountains of Colorado, and worked on organic farms in Ohio and Georgia.

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She is the author of the chapbook Field Guide to Forgiveness (Finishing Line Press, 2023) and the full-length poetry book Sometimes, in These Places (Unsolicited Press 2017). Her creative nonfiction has been shortlisted for The Malahat Review’s Open Season Awards. Rebecca has also been published in The Banyan Review, Sin Fronteras, New Feather’s Anthology, The Roanoke Review, Anderbo, and The Red Mesa Review among other literary journals.

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More of her work can be found at www.rebeccawatkinswriter.com.