Rebecca Worby is a writer and editor currently based in New York. Her creative writing and journalism have appeared in The Common, Orion, Outside, The Guardian, High Country News, Catapult, and elsewhere. Her Literary Hub essay on art and vandalism in the Utah desert was listed as notable in Best American Science and Nature Writing 2021. She received her MFA in creative nonfiction from Columbia University in 2014, and she has received fellowships from Bread Loaf, Columbia University, and Recess Art.
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.
