Daughters of the Minotaur engages with the life and work of five mid-century women artists. Both a powerful meditation on female identity and a celebration of artistic greatness, Daughters of the Minotaur is a lyrical conversation, a subversive reimagining, and a renegade act of feminist invention. These artists' radical and pioneering visions are woven together to confront what it means to live and work in a landscape dominated by patriarchal notions of womanhood and art.
Rebecca Faulkner is a London-born poet based in Brooklyn. The author of Permit Me to Write My Own Ending, (Write Bloody Publishing, 2023) her work appears in New York Quarterly, The Maine Review, The Poetry Society of New York, CALYX Press, Berkeley Poetry Review, and elsewhere.
She is the winner of Black Fox Literary Magazine’s 2023 Writing Contest, the 2022 winner of Sand Hills Literary Magazine’s National Poetry Contest, and the 2021 Grand Prize winner of the Prometheus Unbound Poetry Competition. Rebecca was awarded the Second Place Prize in the 2025 Streetlight Magazine Poetry Contest. She was a finalist for the 2024 American Literary Review Poetry Award, the 2024 Claire Keyes Poetry Award, the 2023 Mslexia Poetry Competition, the 2023 Desert Rat Poetry Prize, and the 2022 Patricia Cleary Miller Award for Poetry. She was a semifinalist for the 2024 Gearhart Poetry Prize, and an International Merit Award winner in the Atlanta Review’s 2024 Poetry Competition. She has received Honorable Mentions for the 2024 Common Ground Review Poetry Prize and the 2021 Foster Poetry Prize. Her work has been anthologized in the Best New British and Irish Poets 2019-2021, nominated in 2025 and 2022 for Best of the Net and in 2022 for a Pushcart Prize.
In 2021 Rebecca was a Poetry Fellow at the Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts. Rebecca holds a BA in English Literature & Theatre Studies from the University of Leeds, an MA in Performance Studies from NYU, and a Ph.D. in Cultural Studies from the University of London. She is the recipient of a 2023 poetry grant from the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund for Women.
Her collection, Permit Me to Write My Own Ending was published in the US and UK in March 2023 by Write Bloody Publishing, and was a finalist for the New England Poetry Club’s 2024 Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize.
Her new collection, Daughters of the Minotaur, which engages with the life of five mid-century women artists, was longlisted for the C & R Press Poetry Award, a finalist for the Gasher Press Book Prize, and named the winner of the 2025 Terry J. Cox Poetry Prize. It is forthcoming from Regal House Publishing in 2027.