Rebecca Johns
Rebecca Johns's first novel, Icebergs, was a finalist for the 2007 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for first fiction and a recipient of the Michener-Copernicus Award. Her second, The Countess, is forthcoming in October 2010 from Crown Books/Random House. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Ploughshares, 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' Workshop and the Missouri School of Journalism, she teaches in the English Department at DePaul University in Chicago.
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Rebecca Johns recommends
The Mayor of Maxwell Street (2024)
Avery Cunningham
"I can't remember the last time I read a novel that impressed me so much at every level. . . . The Mayor of Maxwell Street will bowl you over from beginning to end."
