Elizabeth Rees

About the Artist

Elizabeth Rees is the author of Every Root a Branch and three award-winning chapbooks.  A fourth chapbook was published by March Street Press in 2002.  Over 350 of her poems have appeared in journals, including The Southern Review, Agni, Partisan Review, New England Review, and Kenyon Review, among many others.  She has taught widely:  Howard University, the U.S. Naval Academy, Harvard University, Boston College, Boston University, Macalester College, Hamline University, and in the graduate program at Johns Hopkins University.  For a number of years, she taught through the John F. Kennedy Center’s professional development program, training teachers how to use poetry in the classroom.  She has also served as a consulting writer and editor to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Smithsonian Museums’ Traveling Exhibitions, and PBS. Since 1989, Elizabeth has also been teaching at The Writer's Center in Bethesda, MD, and since 1994, as a poet-in-the-schools for the MD State Arts Council.  Additionally. she also leads private workshops in poetry and short fiction writing.