Rebecca Curtis


Rebecca Curtis is an American writer. She is the author of Twenty Grand and Other Tales of Love & Money and has been published in The New Yorker, Harper's, McSweeney's, NOON, N+1, and other magazines.
Rebecca was the 2nd runner up of the Miss Teen New Hampshire contest in 1991.
Curtis received her bachelor's degree from Pomona College in Claremont, CA. She also holds an MFA from Syracuse University and a Masters of English from NYU. In 2005, she received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Award for emerging female writers. In 2005 she won the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award for fiction.
Curtis is currently a Lecturer in Columbia University’s Writing Program and is a contributor to .