Rebecca Clarren

Rebecca Clarren has been writing about the American West for more than twenty-five years. Her latest book, THE COST OF FREE LAND (Viking/Penguin, 2023) won an Oregon Book Award and was named a Best Book of 2023 by Kirkus Reviews and others. Her debut novel KICKDOWN (Arcade, 2018) was a finalist for the PEN/Bellwether Prize. Her poems appear in such places at North American Review and Poetry Northwest; she was longlisted for the 2025 Poet of the Year Prize from Only Poems. She lives in Portland with her family.