Rebecca Gayle Howell

Rebecca Gayle Howell
Born (1975-08-10) August 10, 1975
Lexington, Kentucky
Occupation Documentarian, poet, translator
Language American
Genre Poetry

Rebecca Gayle Howell (born August 10, 1975 in Lexington, Kentucky)[1] is an American poet, translator,[2] and documentarian. Her poetry collection Render / An Apocalypse was selected by Nick Flynn for the Cleveland State University Poetry Center First Book Prize in 2012.[3]

Education and career

Howell was born 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. Among her awards is a 2014 Pushcart Prize[4] and two poetry fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center.

Native to Kentucky, Howell served as director of the Women Writers Conference and is an activist against mountaintop removal coal mining. As of 2013, Howell lives in Lubbock, Texas.[5]

In 2014, she joined the staff of The Oxford American as Poetry Editor.[6] In 2016, Howell was promoted to Senior Editor and moved to Little Rock, Arkansas.

Works

Howell’s first book of poetry, Render / An Apocalypse, was chosen by Nick Flynn for the 2012 Cleveland State University First Book Prize. In reviewing Render, the LA Times wrote, "There's an unexpected intimacy... a sense of the physicality of life, of death and of endurance, which in the end is all we have. Howell gets at all of this with precision, pitiless but not unfeeling, knee-deep, waist-deep in the world.".[7] Render was a finalist for ForeWord Review's Poetry Book of the Year in 2013.[8]

Howell’s translation of Amal al-Jubouri’s Hagar Before the Occupation / Hagar After the Occupation was selected to inaugurate the Alice James Books Translation Series in 2011[9] and was chosen as a Best Book of Poetry in 2011 by Library Journal.[10]

Her photographs are collected in This is Home Now: Kentucky’s Holocaust Survivors Speak and Plundering Appalachia: The Tragedy of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining.

Awards

Collections

References

[15] [16] [17]

  1. ↑ "Book: The complicated animal". Leo Weekly.
  2. ↑ "Andrew C. Gottlieb Reviews Render: an Apocalypse, by Rebecca Gayle Howell". Terrain.org
  3. ↑ "Interview with Rebecca Gayle Howell". LitBridge.
  4. ↑ http://www.rattle.com/poetry/my-mother-told-us-not-to-have-children-by-rebecca-gayle-howell/
  5. ↑ "Rendering the Rural World Visible: A Review of “Render: An Apocalypse”". The Hillville.
  6. ↑ http://www.oxfordamerican.org/item/444-hands-in-bleach
  7. ↑ Rebecca Gayle Howell's apocalyptic poetry collection, 'Render' – Los Angeles Times
  8. ↑ https://indiefab.forewordreviews.com/finalists/2013/all/
  9. ↑ Found In Translation | Southsider MagazineSouthsider Magazine
  10. ↑ http://reviews.libraryjournal.com/2011/12/best-of/best-books-2011-poetry/
  11. ↑ http://www.rattle.com/poetry/my-mother-told-us-not-to-have-children-by-rebecca-gayle-howell/
  12. ↑ https://indiefab.forewordreviews.com/finalists/2013/all/
  13. ↑ Schmeltzer, Michael. "CUTBANK REVIEWS: “Render/An Apocalypse” by Rebecca Gayle Howell"
  14. ↑ http://www.rochester.edu/college/translation/threepercent/index.php?id=3899
  15. ↑ Render / An Apocalypse By Rebecca Gayle Howell – The Rumpus.net
  16. ↑ Fifty Word Friday: Render / An Apocalypse by Rebecca Gayle Howell | Ostrich Review
  17. ↑ Book Review: Render / An Apocalypse | Gulf Stream Literary Magazine
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