Rebecca Seiferle was named Tucson Poet Laureate in 2012. Her most recent poetry collection, Wild Tongue (Copper Canyon, 2007), won the 2008 Grub Street National Poetry Prize. She has three previous collections: Bitters (Copper Canyon, 2001) won the Western States Book Award and a Pushcart prize; The Music We Dance To (Sheep Meadow, 1999) won the Hemley Award; and The Ripped-Out Seam (Sheep Meadow, 1993) won the Bogin Memorial Award, The National Writer’s Union Prize, and the Poets & Writers Exchange Award. In 2004 she was awarded a Lannan Foundation Fellowship. She is a noted translator and the founding editor of The Drunken Boat. She teaches at Southwest University of Visual Arts.