Rebecca Clarren

Award-winning author Rebecca Clarren, trained as a journalist, also writes poetry and fiction. Her latest work of creative nonfiction, The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota and an American Inheritance (Viking/Penguin, 2023) won a number of awards and was named a Best Book of 2023 by Kirkus Reviews. Her novel Kickdown (Arcade/2018), about two sisters struggling to keep their Colorado ranch, was a finalist for the PEN/Bellwether Prize. Her poems appear in places such as North American Review and Poetry Northwest. Clarren lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband and two kids.