Rebecca Kaiser Gibson is the author of the poetry collections Girl as Birchand Opinel. Her work has appeared inSlate,Agni,the Los Angeles Review of Books,NorthwestReview,the Massachusetts Review,Tupelo Quarterly,Harvard Review,Green Mountain Review,Pleiades, and many other magazines.She taught creative writing at Tufts University for twenty-three years and has received writing fellowships from MacDowell, Vermont Studio Center, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, andthe Massachusetts Cultural Council.She lives in Marlborough, NH.
Rebecca Kaiser Gibson writes with a poet's precision and a novelist's sense of character as she deftly evokes her narrator's family, childhood summers, friendships, travels, and love affairs. The result is a radiant and transporting novel which carries the reader along with its wonderful sense of time and place. -Margot Livesey, New York Times bestselling author of The Boy in The Field A liquid voice describes the tenuous journey of a young, unsure girl into womanhood. Each line is considered, tells a story unto itself. This is pure gold. -Andy Weinberger, author of the Amos Parisman Mystery Series