Rebecca Donner was born in Canada but spent her formative years growing up in Los Angeles, an experience that inspired her critically acclaimed novel, Sunset Terrace.  While enrolled in the MFA program at Columbia University, she was literary director of the renowned KGB Fiction Series and editor of On The Rocks: The KGB Bar Fiction Anthology. Her book reviews and essays have appeared in Bookforum, The Believer, People Magazine, and Post Road.

Rebecca has taught writing at Wesleyan, Columbia, Barnard, and the New School. She lives in the East Village in New York City, and is working on her fourth book.

On Wednesday, April 30 at 7pm, Rebecca will be reading a new short story at the Open City KGB Reading at KGB Bar (85 E. 4th Street between 2nd & 3rd Ave).

Rebecca's graphic novel, Burnout, will be published by DC Comics in June 2008: pre-order it now!

Bookforum has recently published Rebecca's review of Andrea Barrett's new novel.

Rebecca is now writing songs for the ongoing "Follies" series at Symphony Space.