Rebecca Hazelton Stafford (born June 20, 1978, Richmond, Virginia) is an American poet, editor, and critic.
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Early life
Hazelton graduated from Davidson College in 2000, receiving a Bachelor of Arts in English; University of Notre Dame, where she got her Master of Fine Arts in Poetry; and Florida State University where she received her Ph.D in English and Poetry.
Career
A former editor at The Southeast Review and Devil's Lake, Hazelton presently reviews contemporary poetry for Southern Indiana Review. She was also in the English faculty of Beloit College from 2011 to 2012. She was then on the creative writing faculty of Oklahoma State University. Her poetry has been published in various journals such as FIELD, Pleiades, and The Sycamore Review. She serves as assistant professor of English at North Central College.
Her poem "Letter to the Editor" was published in The New Yorker in May 2016.
With Alan Michael Parker, Hazelton is editor of the Manifesto Project.
Awards
- 2012, Cleveland State Poetry Center Open Competition Prize
- 2012, Vinyl 45 Chapbook Prize, YesYesBooks
- 2012, "Discovery"/Joan Leiman Jacobson Prize
- 2011, Charles B. Wheeler Prize
- 2011, Best New Poets selection (ed. D. A. Powell)
- 2010, Jay C. and Ruth Hall Poetry Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Works
Books
- Vow (Cleveland State University Press, 2013)
- Bad Star (YesYes Books, 2013)
- No Girls No Telephones with Brittany Cavallaro (Black Lawrence Press, 2013)
- Fair Copy (Ohio State University Press, 2012)
Anthologies
- Best New Poets 2011 (University of Virginia Press, 2011)
Essays
- "Thirteen Ways of Looking at Genealogy, Ancestry, and the (Re)making of Selves," Michigan Quarterly Review (2012)
- "On Lily Brown's Rust or Go Missing," Barn Owl Review (2011)
- "On Simone Muench's Orange Crush," Devil's Lake (2010)
Selected Poems
- "It's Springtime, Elise, and You're Missing All of It," Gettysburg Review (August 15, 2012)
- "Elise Qua Elise," Everyday Genius (August 3, 2012)
- "Gold Empire," Boston Review (May 1, 2012)
- "Do Not Want," Sixth Finch (April 15, 2012)
- "Revision: Elise"; two others, PANK Magazine (March 7, 2012)
- "Three Poems", "CONJUNCTIONS: A Web Exclusive
- "Book of Desire"; "Book of Excess," Anti- (February 5, 2012)
- "Actual Animals," Verse Daily (January 8, 2012)
- "You Make Me Touch Your Hands for Stupid Reasons," Ink Node (November 7, 2011)
- "Questions About the Wife," Verse Daily (September 23, 2011)
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