Rebecca Norris Webb

Originally a poet, Rebecca Norris Webb often blends her writing and photography to create deeply personal visual narratives. Her acclaimed monograph My Dakota—an elegy for her brother who died unexpectedly—was exhibited widely, including a solo show at the Cleveland Museum of Art in 2015.

Her work has been featured in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and Le Monde, and is held in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, and the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York. Her first collaboration with Alex Webb, Violet Isle: A Duet of Photographs from Cuba, was exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

A 2019 NEA grant recipient, Norris Webb’s most recent books include Night Calls—in which she retraces her father’s medical house calls through the rural county where they both were born—and A Difficulty Is a Light, her first hybrid poetry collection accompanied by fifteen of her photographs. She is currently working on two new projects: Badlands, an exploration of personal and environmental loss across the Dakotas, and Glimmerings, a forthcoming book compiling thirty years of her color photographs.