Rebecca Dunham was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and has earned degrees from the University of Virginia, Hollins University, George Mason University, and the University of Missouri. She is the author of two collections of poetry, The Miniature Room and The Flight Cage. Dunham was the Jay C. and Ruth Halls Fellow in Poetry at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing and has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. Her poems have appeared widely in journals such as The Iowa Review, Prairie Schooner, Crazyhorse, AGNI, Colorado Review, FIELD, Crab Orchard Review, TriQuarterly, and The Antioch Review. She is a professor in the doctoral creative writing program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and lives in Bayside, WI.