Rebecca Curtis


Rebecca Curtis is an American writer. She is the author of Twenty Grand and Other Tales of Love & Money and has been published in The New Yorker, Harper's, McSweeney's, NOON, N+1, and other magazines.
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 and is a contributor to Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art.

List of works

Books

Twenty Grand
  • * "Hungry Self"
  • * "Summer, with Twins"
  • * "To the Interstate"
  • * "The Alpine Slide"
  • * "The Near-Son"
  • * "Big Bear, California"
  • * "Monsters"
  • * "Knick, Knack, Paddywhack"
  • * "Twenty Grand"
  • * "The Wolf at the Door"
  • * "Solicitation"
  • * "The Witches"
  • * "The Sno-Kone Cart"

Uncollected stories

  • "The Contradiction"
  • "The White Fox"
  • "The Gusher"
  • "Waterloo!"