Rebecca Berg (writer)

Rebecca Berg is an American novelist.

Life

Berg earned 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

References
  1. "Lighthouse Writers Workshop - Rebecca Berg, PhD". Retrieved 29 December 2016.
  2. "Sarah's Memoir by Rebecca Berg - Word Riot". Retrieved 29 December 2016.
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-03-28. Retrieved 2009-12-03.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)


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