REBEKKAH LEIGH LABLUE is a poet, avian ecologist, & editor/designer pseudo-native to Appalachian North Carolina by way of Long Island (&&&—). With support from Bread Loaf, The Seventh Wave, & MacDowell, her creative work appears with Figure 1, Black Warrior Review, & Hayden's Ferry Review, among others. A Master’s student in Wildlife Ecology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, her research considers how protected lands in the Upper Great Lakes region mediate avian range-shifts under rapid climate change.

My poet-scientist practice leverages voice/form/volta to queer impersonal frameworks of western conservation & data/models/methodologies to complicate the ecology of verse-worlds in the Anthropocene.