Once upon a time, while living and working in London, Rebecca Pyle shared a first prize purse in The National Poetry Competition with the wonderful Irish poet and overall winner Medbh McGuckian. Recently Rebecca's essays, fiction, poetry, and art reviews are appearing in art/lit journals such as The National Poetry Review, The Honest Ulsterman, Guesthouse, The Chattahoochee Review, The Penn Review, Belle Ombre, Cobalt Review, Gargoyle magazine, and Terrain.org. Rebecca, American, is an artist, too, her artwork appearing in New England Review, Grist, december, Belle Ombre, JuxtaProse, and in numerous others. (See rebeccapyleartist.com.)