Join us for a reading with Hypatia-Artist-in-Residence Rebecca Brams. Rebecca will read from her novel, House of Chosen Women, and do a slideshow from her research in Peru while a Fulbright fellow.

Rebecca Brams is a fiction and essay writer who grew up in California’s Mojave Desert and has traveled extensively in Latin America. Her historical novel, House of Chosen Women, takes place in South America during the Inca Empire. Rebecca lived in Peru and conducted extensive research for the novel with the support of a Fulbright Fellowship. She has a B.A. in Anthropology from Stanford University and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from St. Mary’s College of California.

Rebecca’s short fiction and creative nonfiction have been published in The Stonecoast Review, MUTHA, Dark Matter: Women Witnessing, Carve, and Literary Mama. She has been awarded writing residencies at Hypatia-in-the-Woods, Vermont Studio Center, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Rockvale Writers’ Colony, Write On Door County, Dorland Arts Colony, and Cill Rialaig in Ireland. House of Chosen Women was named a semi-finalist in the Key West Literary Seminar’s Marianne Russo Emerging Writer Award, and in the Faulkner-Wisdom Creative Writing Competition. Rebecca lives in Berkeley, California, traditional territory of the Lisjan Ohlone, with her husband, two sons, and a little fluffy white dog. She can be found online at www.rebeccabrams.com.

Free/Public