The Promise of a Nor­mal Life from Arcade Pub­lish­ing, is Rebec­ca Kaiser Gib­son’s debut nov­el. Her poet­ry col­lec­tions are Girl as Birch (2022) and OPINEL (2015) from Bauhan Pub­lish­ing. Her work appears in Agni, Bar­row Street, Field, Green Moun­tains Review, Greens­boro Review, Inter­im, Har­vard Review, among oth­er pub­li­ca­tions. She’s received fel­low­ships from Mac­Dow­ell, the Mass­a­chu­setts Cul­tur­al Coun­cil, Ver­mont Stu­dio Cen­ter, and Vir­ginia Cen­ter for Cre­ative Arts. She will attend VCCA in Auvil­lar, France Novem­ber 2023 and was a Ful­bright Schol­ar teach­ing poet­ry in India. After teach­ing poet­ry at Tufts Uni­ver­si­ty for 23 years, she found­ed The Loom, Poet­ry in Har­risville, a poet­ry read­ing series.