Background
Rebecca Johns grew up in northern Illinois and attended Antioch Community High School.
Rebecca Johns grew up in northern Illinois and attended Antioch Community High School.
She then attended University of Missouri at Columbia, where she majored in Journalism and English (1993).
She is a graduate of the University of Missouri"s School of Journalism and the Iowa Writers" Workshop. She is the author of and 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.
Johns is a member of the DePaul University English Department and teaches annually at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival in Iowa City.