Rebekah Bergman is a writer living in Rhode Island. Her debut novel The Museum of Human History (Tin House, 2023) was long-listed for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Prize and received the special citation from the Philip K. Dick Award. It was named a best debut of the year by Kirkus and Booklist.
Rebekah received a BA in literary arts from Brown University and an MFA in fiction from The New School. Her short stories have been published in Tin House Online, Joyland, The Rumpus, and other journals. Links to her published work can be found here. She is a contributing editor of NOON.
Rebekah was a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and a winner of The Masters Review Anthology Prize, judged by Rebecca Makkai. She has earned fellowships, grants, and residencies from Art Farm, Brown University, and Tent Creative Writing and was selected for Wigleaf’s Top 50 (2019) and nominated for a 2020 Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net.
Rebekah is at work on a second book, for which she has received support from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts and recognition from the Granum Foundation.
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