Rebecca Makkai
Lake Forest, IL
Fiction
Rebecca Makkai is the author of the 2023 New York Times bestselling I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS FOR YOU as well as four other works of fiction. Her last novel, THE GREAT BELIEVERS, was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and was the winner of the ALA Carnegie Medal and the LA Times Book Prize among other honors. A 2022 Guggenheim Fellow, Rebecca teaches graduate fiction writing at Middlebury College and in the Bennington Writing Seminars, and she is Artistic Director of StoryStudio Chicago.