Rebecca Swanberg is an essayist and fiction writer from Washington State. She holds an MFA from the University of Montana and a BA in creative writing from Bard College. Her writing has been published or is forthcoming in Electric Literature, swamp pink, Gulf Coast, EPOCH, Passages North, and other venues, and she’s the winner of the Passages North Neutrino Prize and the Montana Quarterly Big Snowy Prize, a finalist for the Michigan Quarterly Jesmyn Ward Fiction Prize, and a two-time semi-finalist for the American Short Fiction Halifax Ranch Prize. She has served as a Writer-in-Residence with the National Park Service.
Rebecca lives in the Hudson Valley. 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.