About

Rebecca A. Durham is a poet, botanist, and artist. Originally from the Connecticut River Valley of New England, she also calls western Montana home. She earned a B.A. in Biology from Colby College, a M.S. in Botany from Oregon State University, an M.F.A. in Creative Writing (Poetry) from the University of Montana, and a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of Montana. For the last twelve years she has been researching vascular plants and lichens at the MPG Ranch, a conservation research property. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Rebecca’s writing has appeared in Orion Magazine, Epiphany Magazine, Pilgrimage Magazine, Superstition Review, Mud Season Review, Meniscus, Pacific Review, Riverfeet Press Anthology: Awake in the World, Mantis, Bright Bones: Contemporary Montana Writing, Poetry Northwest, Exposition Review, Cold Mountain Review, Plants and Poetry, Terrain.org, and Early Middle English. Winner of the 2019 Many Voices in Poetry Contest, her debut poetry collection Half-life of Empathy was published by New Rivers Press in October 2020. Loss/Less, her second ecopoetry manuscript chosen by Susan Howe for the Marsh Hawk Press Rochelle Ratner Memorial Award, was published by Shanti Arts (2022).