July 27, 2025

Rebecca Faulkner

John Doe is a passionate poet whose work explores the depths of human emotion and experience.

Rebecca Faulkner is a London-born poet based in Brooklyn. She is the author of “Permit Me to Write My Own Ending,” (Write Bloody Publishing, 2023), a finalist for the 2024 Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize. Her work appears in New York Quarterly,The Maine Review, The Poetry Society of New York, and elsewhere. She was a 2023 poetry recipient of the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund for Women, the winner of Black Fox Literary Magazine’s 2023 Writing Contest, and the 2022 winner of Sand Hills Literary Magazine’s National Poetry Contest. Her upcoming collection, Daughters of the Minotaur (Regal House Publishing 2027), engages with the life and work of five mid-century women artists.

I’m tired of protesting nuclear war

while indifference is on display

in Woolworths’ windows, cut-price

deals for 99p.

It is my hope that my poetry responds to and evokes the body, the mind, the heart and the soul.