Rebecca Hatcher Travis bases the
poems in this exquisite collection on memories of her Chickasaw family and the
Oklahoma landscapes that surrounded her as a child. Her poems also serve as
testimonies to the ancestors who have passed on to the next life.
Picked Apart the Bones won the 2006
First Book Award for Poetry from the Native Writers Circle of the Americas.
Her poetry book manuscript, Picked Apart the Bones, won the First Book Award from the Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas and was published by the Chickasaw Press. Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies, literary journals and online. Ms. Travis is a member of Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers and lives in south central Oklahoma, near the land her ancestors settled in Indian Territory days. She is currently working on a new book of poetry
