Second year Brittain Fellow Rebecca weaver has also published in Exquisite Corpse, Paragraph, FIELD, LUNA, Full Circle Journal, The Mid-America Poetry Review, Death Metal Poetry, and the anthologies When We Become Weavers: Queer Female Poets on the Midwestern Experience and Poets In Our Own Words: Voices of a Generation. 

Weaver holds an M.F.A. from Hamline University and a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. She was a founding/poetry editor of Midway Journal, an occasional reviewer for Rain Taxi Review of Books.

To read her poems in Coconut Eighteen, go to http://coconutpoetry.org/cover18.html