headshot photograph of Rebecca, a white woman with mid-length dark hair. She's wearing a pink sweater and glasses, and there's a green monstera plant behind her,

Rebecca Bornstein has held many jobs, including production cook, elementary school secretary, goat sitter, and creative writing instructor. She grew up in rural areas all over the United States, including the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains, the Rio Grande Valley, the upper Mississippi watershed, and an unincorporated township outside Lassen Volcanic National Park. She currently lives in Portland, Oregon. She finds inspiration in the (extra)ordinary work necessary to care for our world, and to imagine and create a better one.

Rebecca is the recipient of a 2022 Oregon Literary Fellowship, and a 2022 Anne LaBastille Memorial Writing Residency from the Adirondack Center for Writing. She holds an MFA from North Carolina State University, where she was the Honorable Mention for the Academy of American Poets Prize and a finalist for the North Carolina State Poetry Prize. Her writing has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in Puerto del Sol, jmww, The Boiler, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Lunch Ticket, The Baltimore Review, The Journal, and elsewhere.