Rebecca Wee's first book, Uncertain Grace, won the Hayden Carruth Award for New and Emerging Poets in 2000 and was published by Copper Canyon Press in May 2001. Her poem "How Was it Sudden Your Long Death" in the Fall 2001 issue of Ploughshares is dedicated to her husband, Michael Hudson, who died in 1998 of leukemia. Her recent work also appears in The Mid-America Poetry Review and the anthology The Cancer Poetry Project, edited by Karin Miller. She teaches at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois.