Regina Buccola is a Kentucky native. She holds a BA in English and Communications/Journalism from Bellarmine University and an M. A. in English from the University of Kentucky, where she studied poetry with former state laureate James Baker Hall. She holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Illinois at Chicago and is currently an associate professor of English and a member of the creative writing and women's and gender studies faculty at Roosevelt University in Chicago. Scholar in Residence at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Gina publishes scholarly work on early modern British drama and poetry, including Fairies, Fractious Women and the Old Faith: Fairy Lore in Early Modern British Drama and Culture (Susquehanna University Press, 2006) and Marian Moments in Early Modern British Drama (co-edited with Lisa Hopkins for Ashgate Press, 2007). She is also a published poet, with a chapbook, Conjuring, available from Finishing Line Press of Kentucky.
