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Rebecca Curtis (born January 10, 1974) is an American writer. She is the author of Twenty Grand and Other Tales of Love & Money (HarperCollins, 2007)^[1] 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^[2] and is a contributor to Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art.

List of works

Books

• Twenty Grand (2007)
  • "Hungry Self" (originally published in The New Yorker, 2001)
  • "Summer, with Twins" (originally published in Harper's, 2005)
  • "To the Interstate" (originally published in Conjunctions, 2005)
  • "The Alpine Slide" (originally published in The New Yorker, 2004)
  • "The Near-Son" (originally published in n+1, 2007)
  • "Big Bear, California" (originally published in Harper's, 2002)
  • "Monsters" (originally published in Crowd)
  • "Knick, Knack, Paddywhack" (originally published in Fence)
  • "Twenty Grand" (originally published in The New Yorker, 2005)
  • "The Wolf at the Door" (originally published in StoryQuarterly, 2004)
  • "Solicitation" (originally published in McSweeney's)
  • "The Witches"
  • "The Sno-Kone Cart" (originally published in McSweeney's, 2005)

Uncollected stories

• "The Deep Red Cremation of Isaac and Grace" (The Antioch Review, 2002)
• "Someone Like Sue" (NOON, 2006)
• "The Contradiction" (Columbia, 2007)
• "The White Fox" (Columbia, 2007)
• "My Race Speech" (Esquire, 2008)
• "The Gusher" (McSweeney's, 2013)
• "Fish Rot" (n+1, 2013)
• "The Christmas Miracle" (The New Yorker, 2013)
• "The Toast" (Harper's, 2014)
• "The Pink House" (The New Yorker, 2014)
• "The Magic Thyroid and Energy Boosting Chocolate Truffles" (n+1, 2014)
• "Waterloo!" (McSweeney's, 2014)
• "Hansa and Gretyl and Piece of Shit" (The New Yorker, 2020)
• "Satellites" (The New Yorker, 2021)

References

External links

• 2013 interview in n+1
• 2019 interview on the Dan & Eric Read The New Yorker So You Don’t Have To podcast