Rebecca Curtis
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Rebecca Curtis (born January 10, 1974) is an American writer. She is the author of Twenty Grand and Other Tales of Love & Money (HarperCollins, 2007)[1] and has been published in The New Yorker, Harper's, McSweeney's, NOON, N+1, and other magazines.
Curtis was the 2nd runner-up in the 1991 Miss Teen New Hampshire contest.[2]
Curtis received her bachelor's degree from Pomona College in Claremont, California. She also holds an MFA from Syracuse University and a Master's in English from New York University. In 2005, she received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Award for emerging female writers, and won the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award for fiction.
Curtis is a Lecturer in Columbia University's Writing Program[3] and is a contributor to Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art.
List of works[]
Books[]
- (2007)
- "Hungry Self" (originally published in The New Yorker, 2001)
- "Summer, with Twins" (originally published in Harper's, 2005)
- "To the Interstate" (originally published in Conjunctions, 2005)
- "The Alpine Slide" (originally published in The New Yorker, 2004)
- "The Near-Son" (originally published in n+1, 2007)
- "Big Bear, California" (originally published in Harper's, 2002)
- "Monsters" (originally published in Crowd)
- "Knick, Knack, Paddywhack" (originally published in Fence)
- "Twenty Grand" (originally published in The New Yorker, 2005)
- "The Wolf at the Door" (originally published in StoryQuarterly, 2004)
- "Solicitation" (originally published in McSweeney's)
- "The Witches"
- "The Sno-Kone Cart" (originally published in McSweeney's, 2005)
Uncollected stories[]
- "The Deep Red Cremation of Isaac and Grace" (The Antioch Review, 2002)
- "Someone Like Sue" (NOON, 2006)
- "The Contradiction" (Columbia, 2007)
- "The White Fox" (Columbia, 2007)
- "My Race Speech" (Esquire, 2008)
- "The Gusher" (McSweeney's, 2013)
- "Fish Rot" (n+1, 2013)
- "The Christmas Story" (The New Yorker, 2013)
- "The Toast" (Harper's, 2014)
- "The Pink House" (The New Yorker, 2014)
- "The Magic Thyroid and Energy Boosting Chocolate Truffles" (n+1, 2014)
- "Waterloo!" (McSweeney's, 2014)
- "Hansa and Gretyl and Piece of Shit" (The New Yorker, 2020)
- "Satellites" (The New Yorker, 2021)
References[]
- ^ Sittenfeld, Curtis (2007-07-15). "Twenty Grand: And Other Tales of Love and Money - Rebecca Curtis - Books - Review". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-01-23.
- ^ "Miss Teen New Hampshire".
- ^ "Rebecca Curtis Creative Writing Lecture Series". arts.columbia.edu.
External links[]
- 2013 interview in n+1
- 2019 interview on the Dan & Eric Read The New Yorker So You Don’t Have To podcast
- American women short story writers
- Pomona College alumni
- Syracuse University alumni
- New York University alumni
- The New Yorker people
- Columbia University faculty
- 1976 births
- Living people
- 21st-century American women writers
- Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award winners
- 21st-century American short story writers
- American women academics
- American fiction writer stubs