Rebecca Dunham’s first book of poetry, The Miniature Room, won the T.S. Eliot Prize and was published by Truman State University Press in 2006.  Her second book of poems, The Flight Cage, is forthcoming from Tupelo Press.  Winner of both an Academy of American Poets Prize and the Indiana Review Poetry Prize, she was awarded a 2007 NEA Fellowship in Poetry. She earned her Ph.D. in English from the University of Missouri-Columbia and was the 2005-2006 Jay C. and Ruth Hall Fellow in Poetry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Currently, she is an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.