Assistant Professor
v5gk8c@jmu.edu
Contact Info
Fall 2026 Office Hours
TBA
Office: Keezell 206
Specialization
Poetry writing; feminist poetics; post-1945 avant-garde literary movements.
Education
Ph.D., Rutgers University
M.F.A., Columbia College Chicago
B.A., University of Southern California
Bio
Becca Klaver is the author of the poetry collections LA Liminal (Kore Press, 2010), Empire Wasted (Bloof Books, 2016), and Ready for the World (Black Lawrence Press, 2020), as well as several chapbooks. Her latest publications are Midwinter Constellation (Black Lawrence, 2022), a collaborative homage to Bernadette Mayer’s Midwinter Day, and Greetings from Bowling Green (The Magnificent Field, 2022), a chapbook of postcard poems. Her scholarly writing appears in Humanities, College Literature, Jacket2, and elsewhere. As an editor, she co-founded Switchback Books, co-edited the anthology Electric Gurlesque (Saturnalia Books), and created group projects such as Women Poets Wearing Sweatpants. Becca joined the JMU Department of English in 2026.
