[1] In 1989, she received her Master of Fine Arts from Warren Wilson College.
[1] She taught English and creative writing for a number of years at San Juan College and has taught at the Provincetown Fine Arts Center, Key West Literary Seminar,[2] Port Townsend Writer's Conference, Gemini Ink, the Stonecoast Master of Fine Arts program She has been poet-in-residence at Brandeis University.
Her second collection, The Music We Dance To (Sheep Meadow 1999) won the 1998 Cecil Hemley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America.
Her third poetry collection, Bitters, published by Copper Canyon Press, won the Western States Book Award and a Pushcart Prize.
[6] Rebecca Seiferle, in 2012, was declared the poet laureate of Tucson Arizona.