Rebecca Rukeyser

Rebecca Rukeyser's debut novel, The Seaplane on Final Approach, is coming June 2022 from Doubleday (USA) and Granta Books (UK).

Her fiction has appeared in Zyzzyva, The Massachusetts Review, was awarded the Berlin Senate Stipend for Non-German Literature, and anthologized in Best American Nonrequired Reading. She received an MFA in Fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

Originally from Davis, California, Rebecca lives in Berlin.

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