Rebecca Bengal’s short stories have been published in Southwest Review, Greensboro Review, and Best American Nonrequired Reading. She’s completing a collection of fiction as well as longform writing about the Standing Rock movement to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline. Her reporting, narrative nonfiction, interviews, and writing about the environment, social justice, photography, fiction, music, and film has appeared in/on The Paris Review, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Vogue, The Believer, Aperture, The Guardian,T, W, Oxford American, New York, Guernica, Pitchfork Review, vThe Washington Post Magazine, and Transgressor. She is a MacDowell Colony fellow and she’s been an artist in residence at Djerassi Resident Arts Program, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Caldera, and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts.