Rebecca Johns's first novel, ICEBERGS, was a finalist for the 2007 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for first fiction and a recipient of the Michener-Copernicus Award. Her second, THE COUNTESS--a fictionalization of the life of Elizabeth Bathory, the "Blood Countess"--was published in October 2010...
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Rebecca Johns's first novel, ICEBERGS, was a finalist for the 2007 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for first fiction and a recipient of the Michener-Copernicus Award. Her second, THE COUNTESS--a fictionalization of the life of Elizabeth Bathory, the "Blood Countess"--was published in October 2010 from Crown Books and subsequently around the world. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, StoryQuarterly, the Mississippi Review, Printer's Row Journal, the Chicago Tribune, Cosmopolitan, Mademoiselle, Ladies' Home Journal, Self, and Seventeen, among others. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the Missouri School of Journalism, she teaches in the English Department at DePaul University in Chicago.
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