Rebecca Curtis

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) 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 and is a contributor to Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art.

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)