Becca Klaver

Becca Klaver was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She received her BA in English, creative writing from the University of Southern California, her MFA in poetry from Columbia College, and her PhD in English from Rutgers University. She is the author of Empire Wasted (Bloof Books, 2016) and LA Liminal (Kore Press, 2010) and the founding editor of the nonprofit feminist press Switchback Books. She is currently the Robert P. Dana Emerging Writer Fellow at Cornell College and lives in Iowa City, Iowa.