Rebecca Worby is a writer and editor currently based in New York, though in the last decade she has also lived in Colorado, California, and Texas. Appropriately enough, much of her writing explores the relationship between place and identity.
Her creative writing and journalism have appeared in Orion, Literary Hub, Outside, The Guardian, High Country News, Catapult, and elsewhere. Her essay about the Utah monolith was listed as notable in Best American Science and Nature Writing 2021. She received her MFA in creative nonfiction from Columbia University in 2014.
Becca is the editorial director of Reasons to be Cheerful, an online magazine dedicated to solutions journalism, founded by musician and artist David Byrne. From 2019 to 2023, she was an editor at Wildsam, a publisher of literary travel guides.
Her literary agent is Elizabeth Pratt at Trellis Literary Management.
