Rebecca Winterer was awarded the Del Sol Press 2016 First Novel Prize and selected as a finalist for the Black Lawrence Press 2016 Big Moose Prize. She's received fellowships at the Millay Colony, the Vermont Studio Center, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and Yaddo; and has had a story published by Puerto del Sol. She holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College and an MS in Physical Therapy from Columbia University. Raised in Queensland, Australia, she now lives in San Francisco, California with her husband. The Singing Ship is her first novel.