Rebecca Gayle Howell

Rebecca Gayle Howell is a 2019 United States Artists Fellow. She serves as the James Still Writer-in-Residence at the Hindman Settlement School in Knott County, Kentucky and the poetry editor for Oxford American. Her most recent book is American Purgatory, selected by Don Share for Great Britain’s 2016 Sexton Prize and named a must-read collection by Poetry London, The Millions, and the Courier-Journal. Find her on Twitter @howtopreserve.