Rebecca Hawkes

Rebecca Hawkes is a queer painter-poet originally from rural Aotearoa New Zealand. Her book Meat Lovers won Best First International Collection in the UK Poet Laureate’s 2022 Laurel Prize and was a Lambda Literary award finalist. She is head shepherd of the hot-blooded literary journal Sweet Mammalian and co-edited the Pacific climate poetry anthology No Other Place to Stand. Rebecca is currently topsy-turvy between hemispheres, studying an MFA in yearning (and, to a lesser extent, poetry) at the University of Michigan. Her chapbooks Softcore Coldsores and Hardcore Pastorals can be found in the AUP New Poets series and Cordite, with more poems published and forthcoming in places like Salt Hill, Hobart, Glass, and Best New Zealand Poems. Selected words and work can be found at www.rebeccahawkesart.com