Rebecca Seiferle's new collection, The Music We Dance To, (Sheep Meadow, November, 1999) has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Work from the collection will be included in The Best American Poetry 2000 and won the Cecil Hemley Award from the Poetry Society of America.

Her booklength translation of Vallejo's Trilce (Sheep Meadow Press, 1992) was a finalist for the PenWest Translation Award. She is also the author of The Ripped-Out Seam (Sheep Meadow, 1993) which won the Bogin Award from the Poetry Society of America and the Writers Exchange Award. Her work has most recently appeared in The Partisan Review and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 1997, 1998, and 1999.