Episode 116: My Mother, My Father, Myself Part III, by Rebeca Evans

Rebecca Evans writes the difficult, the heart-full, the guidebooks for survivors. Her debut memoir in verse, Tangled by Blood, bridges motherhood and betrayal, untangling wounds and restorying what it means to be a mother. She’s a memoirist, essayist, and poet, infusing her love of empowerment with craft.  She teaches high school teens in the Juvie system through journaling and art projects. Rebecca is also a military veteran, a practicing Jew, a self-taught gardener, and shares space with four Newfoundlands and her sons She specializes in writing workshops for veterans and those diving deep in narrative. She co-hosts Radio Boise’s Writer to Writer show on Stray theater and does her best writing in a hidden cove beneath her stairway. 

  

She's earned two MFAs, one in creative nonfiction, the other in poetry, University of Nevada, Reno at Lake Tahoe. Her poems and essays have appeared in Narratively, The Rumpus, Hypertext Magazine, War, Literature & the Arts, The Limberlost Review, and more, along with a handful of anthologies. 

  

She’s co-edited an anthology of poems, when there are nine, a tribute to the life and achievements of Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Moon Tide Press, 2022). Her full-length poetry collection, a memoir-in-verse, Tangled by Blood (Moon Tide Press. 2023), is available wherever fine books are sold. 

 

https://rebeccaevanswriter.com/