Rebecca Curtis (born January 10, 1974) is an American writer. She is the author of ''Twenty Grand and Other Tales of Love & Money'' (

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, 2007) and has been published in

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, Harper's,

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, N+1, and other magazines. Curtis received her bachelor's degree from

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. She also holds an MFA from

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and a Master's in English from

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. In 2005, she received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Award for emerging female writers, and won the

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for fiction. Curtis is a lecturer in

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's Writing Program and is a contributor to '' Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art''.

List of works

Books

* ''

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'' (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)

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