About

Rebecca Morton is a queer poet based in Chicago. Her debut chapbook Afterbirth (Small Harbor Press, 2024) explores her family’s involvement in the foster care system.

Her poems appear in The Offing, CALYX, Sugar House Review, Cream City Review, RHINO, TriQuarterly, The Cincinnati Review, Pacifica Literary Review, Poetry Northwest, and elsewhere, and have been featured on Verse Daily. A recent Tin House Summer Workshop participant, she serves as a poetry reader for The Adroit Journal, and holds an MFA from Eastern Washington University.

Rebecca is currently working on a collection of poems about depression and desire.