Volume 9: Rebecca Biber

1. Pied Piper 2. Heiligenstadt 3. Ode To The Violin 4. Technical Solace 5. Blood and Soil 6. Survivor Guilt Rebecca G. Biber is a collaborative pianist and music teacher living in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Her poetry has appeared in Cutthroat, Lilith, The Lyric, The Passionfruit Review, The Petigru Review, and the forthcoming Bop Book. She was shortlisted for the 2024 Building Bridges Poetry Prize and the Northwind Writing Award, and was named a winner of the “Up a Tree” eco-poem contest. Her first book, Technical Solace, was published in 2017 by Fifth Avenue Press. She holds BM and MM degrees from the University of Michigan School of Music and an MFA in creative writing from Queens University of Charlotte. Artist Statement: Often I write about the practice of music: what it means to us, how it changes us. In other pieces, I use the musical elements of poetry–such as internal rhyme, rhythmic stress, consonance, and repetition–to talk about non-musical subjects. All of these poems speak about the needs of the body, which precede language and demand to be expressed.