Rebecca Brams

Rebecca Brams is a fiction and essay writer. She grew up in California’s Mojave Desert and has traveled extensively in Latin America. Rebecca has a B.A. in Anthropology from Stanford University and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from St. Mary’s College of California. Rebecca’s short fiction and creative nonfiction have been published in The Stonecoast Review, MUTHA, Dark Matter: Women Witnessing, Carve, and Literary Mama. She won a Fulbright Fellowship which allowed her to live in Peru for a year researching and writing her historical novel, House of Chosen Women, named a semi-finalist for novel-in-progress in the Marianne Russo Emerging Writer Award and in the Faulkner-Wisdom Creative Writing Competition. She has been awarded writing residencies at Vermont Studio Center, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts in Nebraska, Rockvale Writers’ Colony in Tennessee, and Write On, Door County, in Wisconsin. Rebecca lives in Berkeley, California, traditional territory of the Lisjan Ohlone, with her husband, two sons, and a little fluffy white dog. She can be found online at www.rebeccabrams.com.