Author Rebecca Makkai will be visiting the Carnegie Public
Library of Steuben County on Tuesday June 12, 2012 at 6:30 pm in the large
meeting room. Rebecca is a Chicago-based writer whose first novel, The Borrower was published in 2011.
It is a Booklist Top Ten Debut, an Indie Next pick, an
O Magazine selection, and one of
Chicago Magazine's choices for best fiction of 2011. Her short fiction has been chosen for
The Best American Short Stories for four consecutive years (2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011), and appears regularly in journals like
Tin House, Ploughshares,
New England Review and
Shenandoah.
Rebecca Makkai’s first story, at the age of three, was printed on the
side of a cardboard box and told from the viewpoint of her stuffed
Smurf doll. Sadly, her fiction has never since reached such heights of
experimentalism. Rebecca holds an MA from Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf School of
English and a BA from Washington and Lee University. Her short fiction
has been anthologized in
The Best American Short Stories 2011, 2010, 2009 and 2008,
The Best American Non-required Reading 2009, New Stories from the Midwest and
Best American Fantasy, and featured on Public Radio International’s
Selected Shorts and This American Life.
Rebecca Makkai’s first story, at the age of three, was printed on the
side of a cardboard box and told from the viewpoint of her stuffed
Smurf doll. Sadly, her fiction has never since reached such heights of
experimentalism. Rebecca holds an MA from Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf School of
English and a BA from Washington and Lee University. Her short fiction
has been anthologized in
The Best American Short Stories 2011, 2010, 2009 and 2008,
The Best American Non-required Reading 2009, New Stories from the Midwest and
Best American Fantasy, and featured on Public Radio International’s
Selected Shorts and This American Life.
Rebecca is married and has two young daughters. For
the past eleven years she has taught at a Montessori school. She is
currently at work on her second novel,
The Happensack, the story of a haunted house and a haunted family, told in reverse.
Join us in welcoming Rebecca Makkai at our library on June 12, 2012.
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