Rebecca Evans

Rebecca Evans served eight years in the United States Air Force and is a decorated Gulf War veteran. She’s hosted and co-produced Our Voice and Idaho Living television shows, advocating personal stories, and now mentors teens in the juvenile system. Her work weaves disability, domestic violence, and a fight for survival throughout her narratives, hoping to launch conversations in the world that creates awareness, compassion, and tolerance. Her writing informs, in a new way, what it means to navigate this world through a broken body and spirit. Her poems and essays have appeared in The Rumpus, Entropy Literary Magazine, War, Literature & the Arts, Tiferet Journal, The Normal School, 34th Parallel Magazine, Fiction Southeast, Gravel Literary Magazine, Scribes Valley Publishing’s Take a Mind Trip (Anthology), Willow Down Books’ Our World, Your Place (Anthology), and Collateral Journal, among others. Winner of the 2018 Cunningham short fiction story award, she was also a finalist for December Magazine’s 2018 Curt Johnson Prose Award and has made the short list as semi-finalist for American Short Fiction’s Short Story Contest. With an MFA in creative nonfiction, Evans is now working on an MFA in poetry at Sierra Nevada University. She is currently editing a collection of essays titled Body Language, and just completed her memoir, Navigation. She has served on the editorial staff of the Sierra Nevada Review and lives in Idaho with her three sons.