REBEKKAH LEIGH LABLUE is a poet, avian ecologist, and editor/designer pseudo-native to Appalachian North Carolina by way of Long Island. The recipient of support from Bread Loaf, The Seventh Wave, and MacDowell, her creative work appears with Figure 1, Black Warrior Review, and Hayden's Ferry Review, among others. A North American Banding Council-certified trainer, she’s worked with birds and their people—in both field and archival settings—across the United States. She is a Master’s student in Wildlife Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

At the intersection of my interests are community-sourced knowledge, archive, phenology, migration, and adaptation—all of these re-imagined through irreverent, queer aesthetics, and with an understanding that climate change further revises them both measurably and immeasurably. My creative work uses poetics to conceptualize alternative frameworks of conservation and, simultaneously, deepen the ecological complexity of poem-worlds by integrating population data.

I earned my BA in biology, BFA in creative writing, and certificate in publishing from the University of North Carolina Wilmington.