Rebecca Faulkner is a London-born poet based in Brooklyn. The author of Permit Me to Write My Own Ending (Write Bloody Publishing, 2023), her work appears in New York Quarterly, The Maine Review, The Poetry Society of New York, CALYX, Berkeley Poetry Review, and elsewhere. She is a 2023 poetry recipient of the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund for Women, the winner of Black Fox Literary Magazine’s 2023 Writing Contest, and the 2022 winner of Sand Hills Literary Magazine’s National Poetry Contest. Rebecca was a 2021 Poetry Fellow at the Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts. She holds a B.A. in English Literature & Theatre Studies from the University of Leeds, an M.A. in Performance Studies from NYU, and a Ph.D. from the University of London. She is currently at work on her second collection of poetry, which engages with the life and work of five mid-century women artists. www.rebeccafaulknerpoet.com