Rebecca Evans
Rebecca Evans is a Pushcart Prize-nominated essayist and poet who writes the difficult, the heart-full, the guidebooks for survivors. Her debut memoir in verse, Tangled by Blood (Literary Titan Book Award Winner),bridges motherhood and betrayal, untangling wounds and restorying what it means to be a mother. She’s a memoirist, essayist, and poet, infusing her love of empowerment with craft. She teaches high school teens in the Juvie system through journaling and visual art. Rebecca is also a disabled veteran, weaving disability, military experience and Jewish heritage throughout her work. She co-hosts Radio Boise’s Writer to Writer show.
Her poems and essays have appeared in Brevity, Narratively, The Rumpus, Hypertext Magazine, War, Literature & the Arts, The Limberlost Review, and more.
She's earned two MFAs, one in creative nonfiction, the other in poetry and co-edited the anthology, When There Are Nine, a tribute to the life and achievements of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Along with her full-length poetry collection, Tangled by Blood, she’s authored a collection-length poem, Safe Handling, and a flash essay collection, AfterBurn (Moon Tide Press, 2026).