In 2022, Rebecca Brock won The Comstock Review's Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Poetry Contest, the Kelsay Women's Poetry Contest and Sheila-Na-Gig online's Editor's Choice Award. Her work has been recognized and honored by Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts, River Heron Review, and Whale Road Review. Her chapbook, Each Bearing Out (Kelsay Books 2022) was a semifinalist in the 2021 New Women's Voices contest at Finishing Line Press. She holds an MFA in fiction from Bennington College. Her nonfiction essay about being a working flight attendant on 9/11 was published in the Threepenny Review and earned a Pushcart Honorable Mention. She has been a flight attendant for most of her adult life and is still surprised by this fact. Idaho born, she lives in Virginia with her family but takes them westward as often as she can. You can find more of her work at RebeccaBrock.org.