Rebecca Curtis

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.

For the American psychologist and author, see Rebecca Coleman Curtis.

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[2] and is a contributor to Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art.

List of works

Books
  • Twenty Grand (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

References
  1. 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.
  2. "Rebecca Curtis Creative Writing Lecture Series". arts.columbia.edu.
  • 2013 interview in n+1
  • 2019 interview on the Dan & Eric Read The New Yorker So You Don’t Have To podcast


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