Rebecca Seiferle is the author of four poetry collections: Wild Tongue and Bitters, (both from Copper Canyon Press), and The Music We Dance To and The Ripped-Out Seam (both from Sheep Meadow Press). She is the recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship, the Grub Street National Poetry Prize, the Western States Book Award, a Pushcart Prize, The National Writer’s Union Prize, and the Poets & Writers Exchange Award. Seiferle is also a noted translator from the Spanish; Copper Canyon Press published her translation of Vallejo’s The Black Heralds in 2003, and her translation of Vallejo’s Trilce (Sheep Meadow Press, 1992) was a finalist for the PenWest Translation Award. She has taught at a number of colleges and writer’s conferences, including Brandeis University, Vanderbilt University, Hamilton College, the Stonecoast MFA Program, Provincetown Fine Arts Center, and the Summer Literary Seminars. She teaches at Southwest University of Visual Arts. In 2012, Seiferle was named Tucson Poet Laureate.