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Rebecca Ackermann

Rebecca Ackermann is a writer, designer, and artist living in San Francisco. Her short fiction has appeared in Catapult, Pithead Chapel, Jellyfish Review, and elsewhere, and has been nominated for The Best American Short Stories, Best of the Net, and The Best Small Fictions. Her essays have been published by MIT Technology Review, Electric Lit, and The New York Times, among other outlets. Ackermann is an alum of the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop and the In Cahoots Residency, and she reads fiction for Split Lip and Okay Donkey magazines.

Food

Fall 2023

Lemon Season

By Rebecca Ackermann

She found the lemons charming at first. “Blue bowl! No stroller! More lemons!” She smiled at his self-knowledge and rewarded his confidence with both hands, even as he failed to […]