Rebecca Donner was born in Vancouver, Canada, but spent her formative years in Los Angeles, an experience that inspired her critically acclaimed novel, Sunset Terrace. She has received degrees from Columbia University and the University of California at Berkeley, and has worked in the fiction department at the New Yorker. Recently, DC Comics published her first graphic novel, Burnout.  

A member of the National Book Critics Circle, Rebecca is a frequent contributor to Bookforum. She is the former Literary Director of the renowned KGB Bar Fiction Series in New York, and editor of On The Rocks: The KGB Bar Fiction Anthology. Rebecca has taught writing at Wesleyan, Columbia, Barnard, and The New School.

Rebecca's essays and short stories have appeared in numerous journals. Most recently, she contributed an essay anthologized in Believer, Beware, published July 2009 by Beacon Press. She also writes songs for the celebrated Symphony Space in New York City.

More often than not, though, she's slogging away on her next novel, or out fishing.

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 "Donner's writing is nothing short of gorgeous." - Baltimore Sun

Recent News 

Rebecca's review of Kate Walbert's novel A Short History of Women has been published in Bookforum and selected by the National Book Critics Circle as an "exemplary review"