Rebecca Kirk Connors (she/her) graduated from Boston University with a BA in English. After graduation, she spent time roaming across the map. Raised in Bethesda, MD, she has lived in the small town of Shelby, NC and on the west coast, in San Francisco, CA and Seattle, WA.
She now lives in a small Massachusetts mill town with her family. She earned an MFA at the Solstice Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing Program now at Lasell University. Along with her writing, she works as a grant writer for CavanKerry Press. In addition, she serves on the advisory board of the Solstice MFA Program, is the vice president of the Maynard Friends of the Library and volunteers as web editor at Lily Poetry Review. She and fellow poet, Lisa Allen founded The Notebooks Collective, a virtual literary arts organization. Through this collective, she teaches workshops, curates events, and provides writing support.
She has too many plants and a weakness for regency romances, horror stories, and disease ecology. She also has a tuxedo cat named Lizzie and a tiger cat named Leo.
Her work has recently appeared in Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Menacing Hedge, Glass Poetry Journal and elsewhere. Her poems have been nominated for the Orison Anthology and the Pushcart Prize.
Her chapbook manuscript, Split Map, won the Dare to Speak Chapbook Contest and was published by Minerva Rising Press in Spring 2019.
