Rebecca Donner was born in Canada but spent her formative years growing up in Los Angeles, an experience that inspired her critically acclaimed novel, Sunset Terrace. While enrolled in the MFA program at Columbia University, she was literary director of the renowned KGB Fiction Series and editor of On The Rocks: The KGB Bar Fiction Anthology. Her book reviews and essays have appeared in Bookforum, The Believer, People Magazine, and Post Road.

In June 2008 DC Comics published her graphic novel, Burnout.

Rebecca has taught writing at Wesleyan, Columbia, Barnard, and the New School. She lives in the East Village in New York City, and is working on her fourth book.

"With Burnout, [DC Comics has] released one of their best works yet. Donner's uncompromisingly gritty tale makes for a scorching hot read, loaded with complex characters and dangerous situations.... The enormously talented Donner is unafraid of taking risks with "Burnout," and it pays off, with a cautionary, edgy and unputdownable story. --Randy Myers (syndicated review)

...Just as she did in her excellent debut [Sunset Terrace], Donner crafts a hauntingly evocative story in BURNOUT. --Bookreporter.com