Rebecca Faulkner is a London-born poet based in Brooklyn. She is the author of “Permit Me to Write My Own Ending,” (Write Bloody Publishing, 2023) which was a finalist for the 2024 Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize. Her work appears in New York Quarterly, The Maine Review, The Poetry Society of New York, CALYX Press, Berkeley Poetry Review and elsewhere. She was a 2023 poetry recipient of the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund for Women, the winner of Black Fox Literary Magazine’s 2023 Writing Contest, and the 2022 winner of Sand Hills Literary Magazine’s National Poetry Contest. Rebecca was a 2021 Poetry Fellow at the Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts. Her new collection, Daughters of the Minotaur, engages with the life and work of five mid-century women artists, and is forthcoming in 2027 from Regal House Publishing. www.rebeccafaulknerpoet.com