Rebecca Schumejda's Biography
I received my
MA in Poetics and Creative Writing from San Francisco
State University and my BA in English and Creative Writing from SUNY
New Paltz.
My new collection Falling Forward was released from sunnyoutside press sunnyoutside press in February of 2009. In addition, sunnyoustide published my chapbook Dream Big, Work Harder in November of 2006 and my poem "Logic" on a postcard. Green Bean Press published my first chapbook The Tear Duct of The Storm in 2001.
My work has been, or will be, published in the following online and print journals: Brouhaha, Chronogram, Controlled Burn, Full of Crow, Home Planet News, Mannequin Envy, My Favorite Bullet, The New York Quarterly, nibble, Night Train, Outsider Writer, Rattapallax, Rusty Truck, Somerville News, Thieves Jargon, Underground Voices, Wilderness House Literary Review, Word Riot, Words Dance, Zygote in my Coffee, and many other small press publications.
Currently, I am working on a collection of poems exploring the pool hall subulture, inspired by my short-lived experience as a co-owner of a pool hall.
I live in New York's Hudson Valley with my amazing husband and daughter. I work as a teacher at an alternative high school.
Fundamentally, I write poetry because my current health insurance does not cover psychiatric services.
My new collection Falling Forward was released from sunnyoutside press sunnyoutside press in February of 2009. In addition, sunnyoustide published my chapbook Dream Big, Work Harder in November of 2006 and my poem "Logic" on a postcard. Green Bean Press published my first chapbook The Tear Duct of The Storm in 2001.
My work has been, or will be, published in the following online and print journals: Brouhaha, Chronogram, Controlled Burn, Full of Crow, Home Planet News, Mannequin Envy, My Favorite Bullet, The New York Quarterly, nibble, Night Train, Outsider Writer, Rattapallax, Rusty Truck, Somerville News, Thieves Jargon, Underground Voices, Wilderness House Literary Review, Word Riot, Words Dance, Zygote in my Coffee, and many other small press publications.
Currently, I am working on a collection of poems exploring the pool hall subulture, inspired by my short-lived experience as a co-owner of a pool hall.
I live in New York's Hudson Valley with my amazing husband and daughter. I work as a teacher at an alternative high school.
Fundamentally, I write poetry because my current health insurance does not cover psychiatric services.