Rebecca Renner
Fiction Writer · Author · Journalist · Speaker
Rebecca Renner is an award-winning fiction writer, author, and journalist whose work spans invented worlds and deeply reported ones. She is the author of Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades, a New York Times Editors’ Choice published by Flatiron Books, and the writer of the adult eco-fantasy novel The Oryssead.
A contributor to National Geographic, her journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Outside, The Guardian, The Paris Review, Tin House, and other national publications.
Her fiction has been recognized by the DISQUIET Prize, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Prague Summer Program, and other literary programs and awards.
An award-winning fiction writer with an MFA in fiction, Rebecca writes ambitious, genre-bending stories about strange systems, ecological stakes, family, power, and belief. Karen Russell called her novel The Oryssead a “wildly inventive eco-fantasy.”
A National Geographic contributor and Fund for Investigative Journalism grantee, Rebecca has reported for The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Outside, and other leading publications, with work reaching millions of readers.
As a keynote speaker and online presenter, I speak and teach live courses on storytelling, writing, and how ideas earn attention. I show people how to find the strongest idea and make it clear enough to stick.
As a brand storytelling consultant, I help companies find the one idea their audience needs to understand. Then I build the story around it, so their teams know what to say and what to leave out.
Gator Country
Rebecca is the author of Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades, published by Flatiron Books.
Part investigative journalism, part natural history, part crime story, Gator Country reconstructs an extraordinary undercover wildlife investigation while examining conservation, poverty, law, history, and the uneasy relationship between people and the natural world.
Gator Country was a New York Times Editors’ Choice, a People Magazine Book of the Week, and Florida’s adult Great Read from Great Places selection for the 2024 Library of Congress National Book Festival. It received the Florida Book Awards’ Gerald Ensley Developing Writer Award and reached #4 on the Hudson News bestseller chart.
It was named among the best books or nonfiction of the year by BookPage, Amazon, The Christian Science Monitor, the Tampa Bay Times, Chicago Public Library, and other publications and institutions.
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