WHO SHE?
Photograph by Joanna Welborn
REBECCA BENGAL
Born and raised in rural western North Carolina, formerly of Austin, Texas, living in Brooklyn. I’m a writer of fiction and nonfiction. My collection Strange Hours: Photography, Memory, and the Lives of Artists was published in 2023 by Aperture, with an essay by Joy Williams. I’m working on a novel, stories, and other projects. I’m also a visiting artist in residence at Bard College.
My short fiction has been published in Southern Cultures, Southwest Review, Greensboro Review, Best American Nonrequired Reading, and by Aperture Books and TBW Books.
Other stories, interviews, essays, reported pieces, and collaborations with artists have been published by The Paris Review, The New Yorker, Criterion Collection, Vogue, Vanity Fair, The Believer, The Guardian, Aperture, Guernica, Pitchfork, The Washington Post Magazine, SSENSE, The New York Times, and Transgressor, among others.
I am a MacDowell fellow, a contributing editor at Oxford American, and a past editor at DoubleTake, American Short Fiction, The Onion, and Vogue.com, among others. I received my MFA in fiction from the Michener Center for Writers in Austin and my BA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Contact me here for inquiries and commissions.