Rebecca Curtis (born January 10, 1974) is an American writer. She is the author of ''Twenty Grand and Other Tales of Love & Money'' (
HarperCollins
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, 2007) and has been published in
The New Yorker
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,
Harper's,
McSweeney's
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Initially publishing the literary journal'' Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern'', the company has moved to ...
,
NOON
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Sola ...
,
N+1, and other magazines.
Curtis received her bachelor's degree from
Pomona College
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in
Claremont, California. She also holds an
MFA from
Syracuse University and a Master's in English from
New York University
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. In 2005, she received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Award for emerging female writers, and won the
Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award
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for fiction.
Curtis is a lecturer in
Columbia University
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's Writing Program
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
"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 Miracle"(''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
External links
* 201
interviewin ''n+1''
* 201
interviewon 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
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