Rebecca Wee

Rebecca Wee is a professor of creative writing at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois. She earned her MFA from George Mason University and has received The Hayden Carruth Award for New and Emerging Poets, a Witter Bynner fellowship from the Library of Congress, a Minnesota State Arts Board grant, and other honors. She served as an editorial assistant to Carolyn Forché on her 1993 anthology Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness, and was the third Poet Laureate of the Quad Cities. She lives in Davenport, Iowa with her daughter and son.

Awards and Honors

Hayden Carruth Award for New and Emerging Poets

Witter Bynner Fellowship, Library of Congress

Grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board

Poet Laureate of the Quad Cities