Rebecca Bengal

Rebecca Bengal's collection Strange Hours: Photography, Memory, and the Lives of Artists has just been published by Aperture with a foreword by Joy Williams. She is also the author of the short story "Blood Harmony" in Kristine Potter's new monograph Dark Waters (also out from Aperture). Her writing about art, literature, film, music, and the environment has been published by the Paris Review, Vogue, Vanity Fair, the New York Times, Oxford American, Southwest Review, the Believer, the Guardian, and the Criterion Collection, among many others. She has contributed short fiction and essays to books by Carolyn Drake, Justine Kurland, Paul Graham, Danny Lyon, Peggy Levison Nolan, and Charles Portis. A MacDowell fellow in literature and a former editor at American Short Fiction, DoubleTake, and Vogue, she holds an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers in Austin. Originally from western North Carolina, Bengal lives in Brooklyn.