Background
She was born in Toronto, Ontario, to writers Dave Godfrey and Ellen Godfrey.
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Rebecca Godfrey
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Godfrey attended the University of Toronto and Sarah Lawrence College, from which she received a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing.
Career
She is also a writing mentor with the Creative Nonfiction (magazine) mentoring program As a child she relocated with her family to Victoria, British Columbia. She worked in Toronto and New York as a journalist and editor before writing her first novel, Torn Skirt.
Her first book, Torn Skirt (2001), a novel, was shortlisted for the 2002 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize.
Reese Witherspoon"s Type A Productions have optioned Under the Bridge, with director Catherine Hardwicke attached to direct. She is adjunct assistant professor of creative writing at Columbia University.
In 2013, it was announced that Knopf Canada and Knopf United States will publish her second novel, The Dilettante.
