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REBECCA HARDIN-THRIFT
Editor, Binge Press
& 27 Rue de Fleures

Rebecca Hardin-Thrift is originally from Belmont, North Carolina. The child of teenage divorcee Debra Beatty and full time hippie, David Hardin, she enjoyed a childhood full of squalor and bacon grease. She married historian Bryan Hardin-Thrift in 1995. After earning a Bachelor's degree in English from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington in 1999, she immediately joined the writing program at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst where she taught for three years, and under the tutelage of John Edgar Wideman earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in fiction in 2002.

	REBECCA HARDIN-THRIFT Editor, Binge Press & 27 Rue de Fleures Rebecca Hardin-Thrift is originally from Belmont, North Carolina. The child of teenage divorcee Debra Beatty and full time hippie, David Hardin, she enjoyed a childhood full of squalor and bacon grease. She married historian Bryan Hardin-Thrift in 1995. After earning a Bachelor's degree in English from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington in 1999, she immediately joined the writing program at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst where she taught for three years, and under the tutelage of John Edgar Wideman earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in fiction in 2002.
Also in 2002 she wrote and performed her one woman show, "The Becky Show," in Northampton, Massachusetts and at New York's International Fringe Festival. The show is a multimedia exploration of the aforementioned white trash childhood, chronicling the hard life and hard times of a southern family.
Her short stories have appeared in Washington Square, The Bellevue Literary Review, Karamu, and in the online journal Crate. Her poetry is forthcoming in Poetry Motel.	back to Binge	Rebecca is an English Professor in the Humanities Division at Tougaloo College in Jackson, Mississippi where she teaches creative writing, speech, and drama. She also directs a student play each semester.