Rebecca Donner’s debut novel, Sunset Terrace, draws on her experience growing up in Section 8 housing. Her graphic novel, Burnout, is about ecoterrorism. Her essays, reviews, and articles have been published in the New York Times, Bookforum, Guernica, and The Believer. She holds an MFA from Columbia University and has received fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center and Yaddo. She recently completed her third novel and is presently engrossed in a new book project, a work of narrative non-fiction. She lives in Brooklyn and is in a band with a few other literary types.
Councilor Ford pauses to catch his breath. “For goodness sakes do not elect [Trump]. It would be a catastrophe. Not only for the United States but for the world.”