Beck Gould Gibson

Becky Gould Gibson has published two prize-winning chapbooks of poetry, Off-Road Meditations (North Carolina Writers’ Network, 1989) and Holding Ground (White Eagle Coffee Store Press, 1996) as well as three full-length collections, First Life (Emrys Press, 1997), Need-Fire (2005 Poetry Book Contest, Bright Hill Press, 2007), and Aphrodite’s Daughter (2006 X. J. Kennedy Prize, Texas Review Press, 2007).  Need-Fire received the 2008 Brockman-Campbell Award given by the North Carolina Poetry Society for the best book by a North Carolina poet in 2007.  Gibson’s poems have appeared in numerous journals, among them, Hiram Review, Brooklyn Review, Comstock Review, Iris, Kalliope, and Feminist Studies; as well as in several anthologies, most recently, Working the Dirt:  An Anthology of Southern Poets (2003) and Don’t Leave Hungry:  Fifty Years of Southern Poetry Review (2009).  Her awards include a North Carolina Arts Council Literary Fellowship in Poetry (1993) and nomination for the Twentieth Annual Pushcart Prize in Poetry (1995).  Gibson has just been named North Carolina Poetry Society’s Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poet for the central district, 2009-2010.