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.