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Rebecca Ellis

She/her | read, write poetry, watch birds | Glen Carbon, IL, United States

Rebecca Ellis lives in southern Illinois where the land transitions from Mississippi River floodplain to high bluffs. Her poems can be found in About Place Journal, The American Journal of Poetry, Bellevue Literary Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Calyx Journal, and Crab Creek Review. She edited Cherry Pie Press, publishing poetry chapbooks by Midwestern women poets. She is a Master Naturalist through the University of Illinois Extension Service.

Selected work

Cover of Beloit Poetry Journal

Sleeping on the Great Mississippi Flyway (print only)

Beloit Poetry Journal, 2025

Poetry
Cover of Beloit Poetry Journal

Put Out Into the Deep Water (print only)

Beloit Poetry Journal, 2025

Poetry
Cover of Beloit Poetry Journal

Catch the Disappearing (print only)

Beloit Poetry Journal, 2024

Poetry
Cover of One

Violets

One, 2023

Poetry
Cover of CALYX

Last Things

CALYX, 2022

Poetry
Cover of The Ekphrastic Review

Second Light

The Ekphrastic Review, 2020

Poetry
Cover of Verse-Virtual.org

Aubade for the End of the Beginning of a Day in Which We Wake Together, Apart

Verse-Virtual.org, 2020

Poetry
Cover of About Place Journal

Past Life Flyover

About Place Journal, 2020

Poetry
Cover of The Ekphrastic Review

Second Light

The Ekphrastic Review, 2020

Poetry
Cover of Rockvale Review

Say Her Name

Rockvale Review, 2019

Poetry