Rebecca Swanberg is a fiction and nonfiction writer from Washington State. She holds a BA in creative writing from Bard College and an MFA from the University of Montana. Her writing has been published or is forthcoming in EPOCH, Gulf Coast, swamp pink, Passages North, and other venues, and she’s the winner of the Passages North Neutrino Prize and the Big Snowy Prize. She has served as a Writer-in-Residence with the National Park Service.
Currently living in Brooklyn, NY, Rebecca is working on her first novel. She directs the Bard Prison Initiative’s Fishkill campus, and teaches writing, personal essay, and pedagogy. She has served as a faculty member for the Bard Language & Thinking Program and LEDA Summer Institute at Princeton. In addition to writing, she loves to read, horseback ride, sing, hike, practice yoga, rock climb, and bike.