Rebecca Gaydos

Rebecca Gaydos was born in Santa Barbara, California, where her mother and father danced in a regional ballet company. At UC Berkeley she won the Eisner Prize in Poetry and earned her Ph.D. in English. She has taught literature and writing at Diablo Valley College, San Quentin State Prison, and UC Berkeley. Her first full-length book of poetry, Güera, is forthcoming from Omnidawn Publishing in 2016.