Rebecca Turkewitz

Rebecca Turkewitz is a writer and high school English teacher living in Portland, Maine. Her debut collection of stories, Here in the Night, will be published by Black Lawrence Press in July of 2023. Her fiction, essays, and humor writing have appeared in The Normal School, The Masters Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, Catapult, Electric Literature, The New Yorker’s Daily Shouts, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in fiction from The Ohio State University. She’s been a resident at Hewnoaks Artist Residency and won a 2020 Maine Literary Award in the short works category. She loves cats, the ocean, and ghost stories.