REBEKAH PRESSON MOSBY
1738 PRESTON HILL ROAD, HAMILTON, NEW YORK 13346
PHONE (315) 824-3238; FAX (315) 824-8388
RMOSBY@MAIL.COLGATE.EDU; HTTP://WWW.REBEKAHPRESSONMOSBY.COM
EDUCATION: 1975 University of California Berkeley, A.B. Dramatic Literature (Also studied in Berlin, West Germany and England)
1987 University of Missouri Kansas City, M.A. Playwriting
WORK EXPERIENCE: I am a free-lance, best-selling author/editor and Grammy nominated audio producer. My clients from 1983-present include:
• National Public Radio (NPR), Washington D.C. Free-lance cultural arts reporter with about 140 stories and documentaries aired nationally.
• Sourcebooks, Inc., Naperville, Illinois (see publications).
• Rhino Records, Los Angeles, California (see publications).
• Shout!Factory, Santa Monica, California (see publications).
• Time/Warner Audio, Los Angeles, California (see publications).
• Colgate University, Hamilton, New York. Taught Radio Writing in 2007, previously produced a Living History by interviewing 40, mostly elderly, people on audiotape regarding their lives and experiences at Colgate.
• The Women’s Museum, Dallas, Texas Consultant for poetry listening room (2000).
1983-1995:
• Producer/Host/Primary Interviewer -- New Letters on the Air, University of Missouri — Kansas City I produced over 400 new programs for this half-hour, syndicated weekly radio program, which was broadcast in approximately 50 cities. I also hosted and interviewed about 350 poets and writers.
• Producer/Host--New Letters Poem for the Day Daily 3-5 minute audio modules.
PUBLICATIONS (all include audio CDs and/or cassettes):
• Poetry Speaks Expanded, Sourcebooks, 2007
• Poetry on Record: 98 Poets Read Their Work (1888-2006): Shout!Factory, 2006.
• Poetry Speaks: Hear Great Poets Read Their Work from Tennyson to Plath. Sourcebooks,2001.
• Our Souls Have Grown Deep Like the Rivers: Black Poets Read Their Work. Rhino Records, 2000.
• In Their Own Voices: A Century of Recorded Poetry. Rhino Records, 1996.
• 3 Steps to a Strong Family. Time-Warner Audio Books, 1995.
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SELECTED PRINT PUBLICATIONS:
• Interview with Bruce Berlind for Translation Review, 2006
• “Art and Crafts” (before 1900) entry for the African American Resource Series, Oxford University Press, 2005.
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• Dictionary of American History entries (“African American Music,” “Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater,” “Arts and Crafts Movement,” “Ballads,” “Disco,” “Popular Music,” “Theater”) Charles Scribner’s Sons (2003).
• Poetry Criticism (PC-46), “The Man Who Keeps the English Language Alive: An Interview with Derek Walcott.” (First published in New Letters magazine.)
• Picker Art Gallery catalogue interviews (2000-2004) with artists Rebecca Smith, Rossella Bellusci, John Hubbard and Yevgeny Khaldei (published in The Picker Art Gallery Journal).
• New Letters, Interview with Peter Balakian (2002).
• Ishmael Reed Interview (from 1988) in Conversations with Ishmael Reed (ed. Amritjit Singh) University Press of Mississippi (1995).
• New Letters, January, 1993. Special issue of the literary quarterly featuring ten of my “New Letters on the Air” interviews: Gwendolyn Brooks, Joseph Brodsky, Joy Harjo, Josephine Humphreys, Joyce Carol Oates, Walker Percy, Leslie Marmon Silko, John Updike, Derek Walcott and Allen Ginsberg (co-interviewer).
• Borderline, Fall 1989. “Whatever Happened to Ken Kesey.”
• New Letters Review of Books, Autumn 1989. “American Appetites: An Interview with Joyce Carol Oates.”
• Borderline, February 1989. “Hanging Around the Plaza with Yoko Ono.”
• The Atlanta Journal/Constitution, August 28, 1988. “Richmond Museum Examines a Subject City Would Rather Forget.” (Based on a story I reported for NPR.)
• Harper’s, July 1988. “I Sing of Norman P.” (Interview with Allen Ginsberg).
AWARDS and HONORS:
• University of Missouri-Kansas City 2009 College of Arts & Sciences Alumni Achievement Award recipient.
• ForeWord Book of the Year Silver Award for anthologies and PMA Benjamin Franklin Award for Poetry Speaks Expanded, 2008.
• Grammy nominee, 2006 as producer of Poetry on Record: 98 Poets Read Their Work (1888-2006), “Best Historical Collection.”
• Audie Award for Poetry, 2001 (for Our Souls Have Grown Deep Like the Rivers: Black Poets Read Their Work.
• Earphones Awards for excellence from AudioFile magazine for 3 Steps to a Strong Family, Our Souls Have Grown Deep Like the Rivers and Poetry Speaks.
• First prize—Public Affairs from the President’s Committee on People With Disabilities for “Healing the Wounds of War With Words,” broadcast on NPR program, Horizons.
• First prize—Features from the Kansas Broadcaster’s Association for profile of artist Elizabeth Layton broadcast on NPR’s Morning Edition.
