About
Rebecca Bednarz is an editor, writer, and educator working at disciplinary intersections. A poet by training, she has guided editorial on prominent literary and scholarly works, major museum exhibitions and publications, public history projects, and advanced science and tech communications.
Rebecca has led editorial on award-winning, highly acclaimed museum and public history projects, including the Newburyport Black History Initiative (2022–ongoing), Draw Me Ishmael: The Book Arts of Moby Dick (2024), Gio Swaby: Fresh Up (2023), On This Ground: Being and Belonging in America (2022), Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle (2020, with catalogue), T.C. Cannon: At the Edge of America (2018, with catalogue), PlayTime (2018, with digital publication), Georgia O'Keeffe: Art, Image, Style (2018), It's Alive! Classic Horror and Sci-fi Art from the Kirk Hammett Collection (2017, with catalogue), and American Impressionist: Childe Hassam and the Isles of Shoals (2016, with catalogue).
Her chapbook Camera Obscura was selected by Carmen Giménez, now executive director of Graywolf Press, and published by Noemi Press. Poet Martha Collins described the work, "Alternating poems that perform syntactically expansive riffs on photographs and other art with poems of personal loss, Rebecca Bednarz enters ‘the room, the dark one’ that gives Camera Obscura its title and explores the associative depths of feeling that come to the surface when one dares to stand unflinchingly ‘before the negative’s total eclipse’ and share what is found there." Her poems have appeared in The Threepenny Review, Prairie Schooner, and DoubleTake.
Rebecca is a visiting professor at Fitchburg State University where she teaches graduate courses in creative writing, pedagogy, criticism, and creative practice. She holds an MFA in creative writing from Purdue University and an EdM in teaching and learning from Harvard University. She serves on the Access Advisory Council of the Arlington Center for the Arts. She lives in Metrowest Boston with her husband and son.
