Rebekah Rossman Member Member since 2021

Memoir, Creative Nonfiction, Poetry

Poetry Nonfiction

Rebekah Rossman was first published in Highlights Magazine at age eight. She won numerous writing awards throughout her early school days, including publications in university literary magazines. Her poetry and short memoirs have appeared in Chicago Story Press, Write City Magazine, The Windy City Review, The Nelligan Review, and other literary publications. Rossman’s short story "Guess What" was the first piece accepted for UCLA's Southland Alibi inaugural edition. She was twice nominated for the Allegra Johnson Literary Prize, and in 2025, her unpublished essay, “What Sisters Do,” was chosen in the Top 20 of the Writer’s Digest Personal Essay Awards. Rossman has a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Illinois—Urbana and is a current MFA candidate in Writing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She was just named Literature Editor for the school’s F News Magazine. Rossman lives on Chicago's North Shore with her two dogs and is writing her first memoir.

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