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Rebecca Gayle Howell was born on 10 August, 1975 in Lexington, Kentucky, is an American poet. Discover Rebecca Gayle Howell's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 48 years old?

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Occupation Writer
Age 48 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 10 August 1975
Birthday 10 August
Birthplace Lexington, Kentucky
Nationality United States

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1975

Rebecca Gayle Howell (born August 10, 1975, in Lexington, Kentucky) is an American writer, literary translator, and editor.

Howell was born to a working-class family in Lexington, Kentucky on August 10, 1975.

She earned her BA and her MA at the University of Kentucky, her MFA at Drew University, and her PhD at Texas Tech University.

2011

Howell is the English-language translator of Amal al-Jubouri's verse memoir of the Iraq War, Hagar Before the Occupation / Hagar After the Occupation (Alice James Books, 2011).

Hagar received a Best Book of Poetry for 2011 from Library Journal and a Best Book by an Arab Woman from Book Riot in 2017.

Howell's El interior de la ballena / The belly of the whale is the bilingual edition of Claudia Prado's award-winning collection of Patagonian agrarian poetry, to be released in March 2024 by Texas Tech University Press.

Howell's and Prado's versions have appeared in The Sewanee Review, The Common, The Southern Review, and elsewhere.

2012

This translation, carried out in collaboration with Husam Qaisi and al-Jubouri, was a finalist for the 2012 Best Translated Book Award and the U.K.'s Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation.

International reviewers included The Wall Street Journal's Mint and Asymptote.

2013

Her first book Render / An Apocalypse was selected by Nick Flynn for the Cleveland State University Poetry Center's First Book Prize (2013).

Render / An Apocalypse also received a cover review in The Los Angeles Times , The Nautilus Award, and a finalist shortlist for Foreword Review's INDIES Book of the Year.

2014

Since 2014, Howell has published writing by poets like Nathaniel Mackey, Nikki Giovanni, Tarfia Faizullah, Tyehimba Jess, C.D. Wright, Kwame Dawes, Ashley M. Jones, Ada Limón, Dean Young, Crystal Wilkinson, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Jericho Brown.

2015

In 2015 she began freelance editing place-based poetry collections, including Crystal Wilkinson's Perfect Black (University Press of Kentucky, 2021); Julia Bouwsma's Work By Bloodlight (Cider Press, 2017); Nomi Stone's Kill Class (Tupelo Press, 2019); and Savannah Sipple's WWJD And Other Poems (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2019).

2016

In 2016, Burnaway: Art of the South named it a Best Book of the Year.

In 2016, Howell and her fellow editors received the National Magazine Award for General Excellence, marking the first time in the magazine's 24-year history to receive the award.

Howell is also an assistant editor and letterpress printer for Q Avenue Books and a contributing editor for Pushcart Press.

2017

American Purgatory, her second book, was selected by Don Share for The Sexton Prize and was published in both Great Britain and the United States in 2017.

American Purgatory was also a finalist for Foreword Review's INDIES Book of the Year.

The book was named a must read by The Courier-Journal,The Millions and Poetry London. Other reviewers included ArtsATL, Nashville Review, The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, and The Rumpus.

In March 2023, Howell released What Things Cost: an anthology for the people, which she co-edited with Ashley M. Jones and associate editor Emily Jalloul (University Press of Kentucky).

The collection received a starred review from Publishers Weekly , a notable anthology for 2023 by Poetry & Writers , a best poetry book of 2023 by Ms. Magazine , and a best Southern book of 2023 by Southern Review of Books , among others.

What Things Cost is called by the publisher, "the first major anthology of labor writing in nearly a century," and all proceeds go to benefit The Poor People's Campaign.

In 2017, she founded Fireside Industries, an imprint of the University Press of Kentucky.

Among the titles Howell published with Fireside are first books by Tanya Berry and Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle.

2019

In 2019 she was named a United States Artists Fellow.

In 2019, she began a collaboration with classical composer Reena Esmail.

A Winter Breviary, their solstice carol cycle, was published by Oxford University Press in 2022.

The third of these carols, "The Unexpected Early Hour," was premiered at the Los Angeles Master Chorale Festival of Carols, December 4, 2021, then recorded and broadcast by the BBC on December 24, 2021.

In 2022, The Gesualdo Six recorded the entire cycle for Choral Music from Oxford with the Gesualdo Six , and in 2023 St. Martin's Choir recorded the cycle as the title tracks for A Winter Breviary: Choral Works for Christmas (Resonus Classics).

The work has been performed and toured by choirs like The Gesualdo Six, The Sixteen, The Yale Ensemble, and Voces8.

In 2023 "The Unexpected Early Hour" was also collected in Carols for Choirs 6 (Oxford University Press).

Howell is the poetry editor of Oxford American.

2020

In 2020 literary critic Jennifer Ashton featured Render / An Apocalypse in her chapter "Ecology, Ethics, and the Apocalyptic Lyric in Recent American Poetry" for Apocalypse in American Literature and Culture (Cambridge University Press).