Rebecca Păpucaru’s debut collection, The Panic Room (Nightwood Editions) was awarded the 2018 Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Poetry and was also a finalist for the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry (Quebec Writers’ Federation) and longlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award (League of Canadian Poets). Her short fiction has appeared in Grain, Event, The Dalhousie Review, and The New Quarterly; “Yentas” was awarded The Malahat Review‘s 2020 Novella Prize. This is her first novel. She lives in the Eastern Townships, Quebec.

Rebecca Papucaru
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