Rebec­ca Kan­ner holds an MFA from Wash­ing­ton Uni­ver­si­ty in St. Louis. Her writ­ing has won an Asso­ci­at­ed Writ­ing Pro­grams Award and a Loft Award. Her sto­ries have been pub­lished in numer­ous jour­nals includ­ing The Keny­on Review and The Cincin­nati Review. Her per­son­al essay, ​“Safe­ty,” is list­ed as a Notable Essay in Best Amer­i­can Essays 2011. She teach­es writ­ing in Minneapolis.