Rebecca Gayle Howell

Rebecca Gayle Howell is the author of Erase Genesis (Project Poëtica/Bridwell Press, 2026); American Purgatory (Black Springs Press Group, 2017); and Render / An Apocalypse (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2013), selected by Nick Flynn for the Cleveland State University Poetry Center First Book Prize. She is also the librettist of A Winter Breviary (Oxford University Press, 2022) for the composer Reena Esmail. Howell is the recipient of fellowships from United States Artists and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. An associate professor of poetry and translation at the University of Arkansas’s creative writing MFA program, she lives between central Kentucky and northwestern Arkansas.