Rebecca Hart Olander

Rebecca Hart Olander’s poetry has appeared recently or is forthcoming in On the Seawall, Poetry Northwest, and Shō Poetry Journal, and her collaborative visual and written work has been published in multiple journals and in They Said: A Multi-Genre Anthology of Contemporary Collaborative Writing, from Black Lawrence Press. A Women's National Book Association Poetry Award winner, Rebecca’s books include Dressing the Wounds (a dancing girl press chapbook, 2019), Uncertain Acrobats (CavanKerry Press, 2021), a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Award and the Massachusetts Book Award, and Singing from the Deep End (CavanKerry Press, 2026). Her work has been supported by Straw Dog Writers Guild and the Mass Cultural Council. Rebecca recently served as the James Merrill Visiting Poet at Amherst College, she works with graduate student poets at Wilkes University, and she is the editor/director of Perugia Press, a feminist press publishing emerging women poets. She grew up on Boston’s North Shore and lives in Western Massachusetts.