REBEKKAH LEIGH LABLUE is a poet, avian ecologist, & editor/designer pseudo-native to Appalachian North Carolina by way of Long Island (&&&—). Her creative work has recieved support from Bread Loaf, MacDowell, & The Seventh Wave, & appears with Black Warrior Review, Figure 1, & Hayden's Ferry Review, among others. A Master’s student in Wildlife Ecology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, her current research considers how protected lands in the Upper Great Lakes region mediate avian range-shifts under rapid climate change.
I’m interested in a poet-scientist practice that leverages irreverence/form/volta to queer western frameworks of conservation & data/models/methodologies to complicate the ecology of verse-worlds in the Anthropocene.