Rebecca Johns is the author of two novels: Icebergs, a finalist for the 2007 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for first fiction and a recipient of the Michener-Copernicus Award; and The Countess, which has been translated into ten languages. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, Narrative, StoryQuarterly, Printer's Row, the Harvard Review, the Mississippi Review, the Chicago Tribune, Cosmopolitan, Mademoiselle, Ladies’ Home Journal, Self, and Seventeen, among others. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ She teaches at DePaul University in Chicago.

Website: www.rebeccajohns.com

Twitter Username: @rebeccajohns71

Publications

• The Countess: A Novel , Crown (October 12, 2010)
• Icebergs: A Novel , Bloomsbury (April 4, 2006)
• "Perpetua in Glory" , Ploughshares (December 2010)
• "Pieta" , The Mississippi Review (June 2009)
• "This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things" , StoryQuarterly (February 1, 2015)
• "Customs" , Printer's Row Journal (July 14, 2013)
• "Grayslake, Illinois, 1974" , Narrative Magazine (March 2013)

Awards

• PEN/Hemingway Finalist(2007)
• Michener-Copernicus Fellowship(2005)

Employment

• Associate Professor at DePaul University (September 2010 - )
• Assistant Professor at Northern Michigan University (August 2007 - May 2010)
• Visiting Assistant Professor at Northern Michigan University (August 2003 - May 2004)

Degrees

• Bachelor of Arts in English/Creative Writing from University of Missouri (May 1993)
• Bachelor of Science in Journalism from University of Missouri (May 1993)
• Master of Fine Arts in Fiction from Iowa Writers' Workshop (May 2003)

Genres of Interest

Fiction, Creative nonfiction