Rebecca Johns

Rebecca Johns (born 1971) is an American author and educator. She is a graduate of the University of Missouri's School of Journalism and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is the author of Icebergs and The Countess. Johns is a member of the DePaul University English Department and teaches annually at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival in Iowa City.

Early career Rebecca Johns grew up in northern Illinois and attended Antioch Community High School. She then attended the University of Missouri at Columbia, where she majored in Journalism and English (1993). Johns has written for several notable publications, including Mademoiselle, Woman's Day, Self, Cosmopolitan, the Chicago Tribune, Ladies' Home Journal, the Harvard Review, the Mississippi Review and Ploughshares. and a recipient of the Michener-Copernicus Fellowship.

The Countess The Countess is Johns's newest work (October 2010) . The novel follows the life of Elizabeth Báthory (Erzsebet Báthory), the "Blood Countess" who was one of the historical figures some believe inspired the fictional Dracula.