
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
Sleeping on the Great Mississippi Flyway (print only)
Beloit Poetry Journal, 2025
Put Out Into the Deep Water (print only)
Beloit Poetry Journal, 2025
Catch the Disappearing (print only)
Beloit Poetry Journal, 2024
Violets
One, 2023
Last Things
CALYX, 2022
Second Light
The Ekphrastic Review, 2020
Aubade for the End of the Beginning of a Day in Which We Wake Together, Apart
Verse-Virtual.org, 2020
Past Life Flyover
About Place Journal, 2020
Second Light
The Ekphrastic Review, 2020
Say Her Name
Rockvale Review, 2019