Rebecca Chace

[2] She has also published the memoir Chautauqua Summer (1993), and her first children's novel June Sparrow and the Million Dollar Penny (2017).

Chace has written for many publications including The New York Times Magazine, the Huffington Post, and NPR's All Things Considered.

[3] Chace was a 2016 Writing Fellow at Dora Maar House, a 2015-2016 member of the Wertheim Study at the New York Public Library, and the 2014 recipient of the Grace Paley Fiction Fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center.

Chace holds degrees from the Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Acting Program and the Bennington Writing Seminars (Fiction MFA).

In House of SpeakEasy’s Seriously Entertaining program, Chace talks about living in an Upper West Side apartment with her mother as a teenager, “she taught me so much about words and language.”[5]