Rebecca Bengal has written about such things as death, drifters, obsessive teenagers, abandoned motels, William Eggleston, Mary Gaitskill, Dolly Parton, trains, old cars, prison whistles, dive bars, secret boats, lost communes, moonshiners, melon farmers, steelworkers, destroyed theme parks, Graceland’s daily visitor, and a Russian cat circus. Her short stories have been published in Southwest Review, Greensboro Review, and Best American Nonrequired Reading, and she is currently completing a collection and writing a novel. Her narrative nonfiction, journalism, and photographs have appeared in publications such as The New Yorker online, the Paris Review Daily, The New York Times, The Believer, Oxford American, New York, The Washington Post Magazine, Vogue.com, and Transgressor, and received honorable mention in Best American Sportswriting. She has been an editor at DoubleTake, American Short Fiction, The Onion, and elsewhere. In addition to her fellowship at MacDowell, she has been a resident artist at Djerassi Resident Arts Program, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Caldera, and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. Originally from North Carolina, she received her M.F.A. from the Michener for Writers in Austin, Texas, and currently lives in Brooklyn.
Rebecca Bengal
Studios
Delta Omicron
Rebecca Bengal worked in the Delta Omicron studio.
Delta Omicron Studio was funded by members of the international musical fraternity in 1927. The building design is somewhat medieval in character, with an unusual cedar shingle pattern, a steeply pitched slate roof, intersecting gables, and small windows. After a 2016 deep-energy renovation, Delta Omicron is now one of the most energy efficient studio on the property…