Rebecca Johns Trissler

Rebecca Johns's first novel, ICEBERGS, was a finalist for the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award and a recipient of a Michener-Copernicus fellowship. Her second, THE COUNTESS, has been published in ten languages.

​Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, StoryQuarterly, the Mississippi Review, the Harvard Review, Printer's Row Journal, the Chicago Tribune, Cosmopolitan, Mademoiselle, Ladies' Home Journal, Self, and Seventeen, among others. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the Missouri School of Journalism, she is the director of the MFA and MA in Creative Writing and Publishing at DePaul University.​