Rachel Jamison Webster

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Rachel Jamison Webster
Born1974 (age 50–51)
Madison, Ohio
Occupation
  • Poet
  • Teacher

Rachel Jamison Webster (born 1974) is an American writer. She is the author of the book Mary is a River, which was a finalist for the National Poetry Series in 2018.

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She published two chapbooks with Dancing Girl Press: The Blue Grotto (2009) and Hazel and the Mirror (2015).

She edited two anthologies of creative writing by Chicago Teens, Alchemy (2001) and Paper Atrium (2205). Webster co-founded the online anthology of international poetry, UniVerse, with her late partner Richard Fammeree.

In 2003 she wrote Benjamin Banneker and Us, having discovered Benjamin Banneker was an ancestor, and got in contact with some of his other decedents.

Early life

Webster was born in Madison, Ohio. She attended DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois and then transferred to Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, where she graduated magna cum laude with a BA in English literature. Her MFA is from Warren Wilson’s Program for Writers. [1]

Honors

Webster has received awards from the Academy of American Poets, [2] the American Association of University Women, the Howard Foundation, and the Poetry Foundation. From 2017-2018, she participated in the OpEd/Public Voices Fellowship. [3] In 2017, Webster was named a Hewlett Fellow [4] for her establishment of curriculum highlighting diversity and social inequalities. In 2018, Northwestern University recognized her with an Arts and Sciences Alumni Teaching Award for excellence in teaching. [5]

Works

References

  1. ↑ Webster, Rachel Jamison. "Faculty page". Northwestern University. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
  2. ↑ "Rachel Jamison Webster". Poetry Foundation website. The Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
  3. ↑ Staff writer. "2017-18 Program: Congratulations to our 2017-18 Public Voices Fellows!". Northwestern University Office of the Provost. Northwestern University. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
  4. ↑ Staff writer. "English Department Musings 2017". Northwestern University English Department. Northwestern University. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
  5. ↑ Lindell, Rebecca. "2018 Teaching Awards: The College honors 13 faculty members and graduate students for their excellence in the classroom". Northwestern Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences. Northwestern University. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
  6. ↑ Taylor, Ericka (March 21, 2023). "'Benjamin Banneker and Us' traces generations of descendants of the mathematician". NPR.
  7. ↑ "Rachel Jamison Webster Looks at Whiteness in the Context of Her Own Genealogy". Chicago Magazine. Retrieved 2023-06-22.
  8. ↑ Row, Jess (2023-03-21). "A Family Tree as Racially Mixed as the America It Sprang From". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2023-06-22.
  9. ↑ "Book review of Benjamin Banneker and Us: Eleven Generations of an American Family by Rachel Jamison Webster". The Washington Post. March 21, 2023.
  10. ↑ Gunderson, Erica (April 1, 2023). "In 'Benjamin Banneker and Us,' Author Discovers Hidden Black Ancestry". WTTW News. Retrieved 2023-06-22.
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