Rebecca Johns

Fiction Writer

Chicago, IL
Illinois US
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Author's Bio

Rebecca Johns's first novel, ICEBERGS, was a finalist for the 2007 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award and a recipient of a Michener-Copernicus fellowship. Her second, THE COUNTESS--a fictionalization of the life of Elizabeth Bathory--was a Target Discovery pick and published in ten languages.

Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, StoryQuarterly, the Mississippi Review, the Harvard Review, Printer's Row Journal, the Chicago Tribune, Cosmopolitan, Mademoiselle, Ladies' Home Journal, Self, and Seventeen, among others. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the Missouri School of Journalism, she is the director of the MFA in Creative Writing and Publishing at DePaul University in Chicago.

Writers Retreats: 
Literary agent: 
Richard Abate of 3 Arts

Publications & Prizes

Books:
The Countess: A Novel (Crown, 2010)
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Icebergs: A Novel (Bloomsbury USA, 2006)
Journals:
Mississippi Review
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Prizes won: 

StoryQuarterly Finalist, 2015 ("This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things")

The Mississippi Review Fiction Prize Finalist, 2008 ("Pieta")

PEN/Hemingway Finalist, 2007 (Icebergs)

Michener-Copernicus Fellowship, 2005 (Icebergs)

Robert F. Kennedy Foundation Citation for Human-Rights Journalism, 1992

Ray Bradbury Poetry Award, 1989

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Born in: 
Libertyville, IL
Illinois
Raised in: 
Lake Villa / Lindenhurst / Antioch, IL
Illinois
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Last update: Jan 21, 2022