Rebecca Berg
Rebecca Berg is an American novelist.
Life
Rebecca has a doctorate in English literature from Cornell University. Her dissertation won an honorable mention in the Guilford Dissertation Contest for excellence in English prose. She teaches Art of Narrative I and II, as well as assorted one-day workshops.
She has taught at Cornell University and Hobart and William Smith Colleges. With a Fulbright travel grant, she spent a year teaching English to high school students in Hamburg, Germany. She teaches at Lighthouse Writers Workshop.[1]
Since 2003, she has been staff reporter for the Journal of Environmental Health. Her work appeared in Five Fingers Review and Word Riot.[2]
Awards
- 2000 James Jones First Novel Fellowship Contest finalist, for Sarah's Memoir
- 2005 F Magazine Novel-in-Progress Contest third prize, an excerpt from Filigree
- 2007 William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition “Short List for Finalists”, for Julio’s Ghost [3]
- 2008 Dana Award in the Novel, for Julio’s Ghost
Works
- Sarah's Memoir
- Filigree
- Julio’s Ghost