Rebecca Hazelton Biography
Rebecca Hazelton is a poet and editor from the United States. Hazelton is the Manifesto Project’s editor. Hazelton is the author of four poetry books. Hazelton’s poetry has been in the Best New Poets series in 2011, as well as The Best American Poetry series in 2013 (“Book of Forget”) and 2015 (“My Husband”).
Rebecca Hazelton Age
She was born Rebecca Hazelton Stafford on 20 June 1978, in Richmond, Virginia, United States. Rebecca is 45 years old as of June 2023.
Rebecca Hazelton Education
She acquired a Bachelor of Arts in English from Davidson College in 2000, a Master of Fine Arts in Poetry from the University of Notre Dame, and a Ph.D. in English and Poetry from Florida State University.
Rebecca Hazelton Career
Hazelton, a former editor at The Southeast Review and Devil’s Lake, now evaluates contemporary poetry for Southern Indiana Review. She was also a member of the Beloit College English faculty from 2011 to 2012. She was on the creative writing faculty at Oklahoma State University at the time. Her work has appeared in magazines such as FIELD, Pleiades, and The Sycamore Review. She is an English assistant professor at North Central College. In May 2016, her poetry “Letter to the Editor” was published in The New Yorker. Hazelton co-edits the Manifesto Project with her old Davidson professor Alan Michael Parker.
Fair Copy (2012, for which she received the Ohio State University Press/The Journal Award in Poetry), Vow (2013), No Girls No Telephones (authored with Brittany Cavallaro and published in 2013), and Bad Star (2013) are Hazelton’s four collections of poetry. Hazelton engages with Emily Dickinson’s poetry in Fair Copy, utilizing the beginning lines of Dickinson’s poems as acrostics from which she composed her own poems. (Beginning on Hazelton’s 29th birthday, the project used the opening line of every 29th poem from Emily Dickinson’s Complete Works.) Christina Pugh wrote in The Emily Dickinson Journal that Hazelton’s “handling of the line is often astonishingly virtuosic, and [her] material is only ‘personal’ in the coyest and most mercurial of ways,”
Rebecca Hazelton Books
- Gloss (University of Wisconsin Press, 2019)
- Vow (Cleveland State University Press, 2013)
- Bad Star (YesYes Books, 2013)
- No Girls No Telephones with Brittany Cavallaro (Black Lawrence Press, 2013)
- Fair Copy (Ohio State University Press, 2012)
Rebecca Hazelton’s Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of 1 million dollars.
