"Donner's writing is nothing short of gorgeous." - Baltimore SunRebecca Donner was born in Vancouver, Canada, and during childhood lived in such varied locales as Japan, Michigan, Virginia and California. She graduated high school at 16 and received degrees from the University of California at Berkeley and Columbia University. Her first novel, Sunset Terrace, was published to critical acclaim.Rebecca has worked at the New Yorker and taught writing at Wesleyan, Barnard, Columbia University, and The New School. A member of the National Book Critics Circle, Rebecca has published essays and criticism in the New York Times, Bookforum, The Believer, and other publications. She is the former Literary Director of New York City's renowned KGB Fiction Series, and the editor of On the Rocks: The KGB Bar Fiction Anthology. For several years she was a lyricist for a cabaret series at New York's Symphony Space, and she ventured into the world of comics when DC Comics published her graphic novel Burnout, a collaboration with the artist Inaki Miranda.