Rita Mae Reese is an American poet, fiction writer, and marketing director at Headmistress Press, an independent publisher of chapbooks and full-length collections by lesbian poets.
Reese was born and raised in Charleston, West Virginia, and lives in Madison, Wisconsin.
[2] Her first collection, The Alphabet Conspiracy (Red Hen Press), won the 2012 Drake Emerging Writers Award.
The trading card project, lauded by Kathleen Rooney in the Chicago Tribune and featured on Harriet, AfterEllen, and Nat.
They feature such poets as Naomi Replansky, Lesléa Newman, Amy Lowell, Janice Gould, Charlotte Mew, Eloise Klein Healy, Judy Grahn, Audre Lorde, and Minnie Bruce Pratt, among others.