Life

Rebecca has a doctorate in English literature from Cornell University. Her dissertation won an honorable mention in the Guilford Dissertation Contest for excellence in English prose. She teaches Art of Narrative I and II, as well as assorted one-day workshops.

She has taught at Cornell University

Cornell University

Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...

 and Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Hobart and William Smith Colleges, located in Geneva, New York, are together a liberal arts college offering Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science and Master of Arts in Teaching degrees. In athletics, however, the two schools compete with separate teams, known as the Hobart Statesmen and the...

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With a Fulbright travel grant, she spent a year teaching English to high school students in Hamburg, Germany. She teaches at Lighthouse Writers Workshop.

Since 2003, she has been staff reporter for the Journal of Environmental Health. Her work appeared in Five Fingers Review and Word Riot.

Awards

• 2000 James Jones First Novel Fellowship Contest finalist, for Sarah's Memoir
• 2005 F Magazine Novel-in-Progress Contest third prize, an excerpt from Filigree
• 2007 William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition “Short List for Finalists”, for Julio’s Ghost
• 2008 Dana Award
  Dana Award
  The Dana Award is a literary award presented in short fiction, poetry and the novel. It was founded in 1996 by literature professor and poet Mary Elizabeth Parker with the financial backing of Michael Dana. The competition is currently based in Greensboro, North Carolina...
  
  in the Novel, for Julio’s Ghost

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