Bee Sacks holds an MFA from the Programs in Writing at the University of California, Irvine. Their debut novel, City of a Thousand Gates, published under the name Rebecca Sacks, was awarded the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for fiction. Their second novel, The Lover, was published in 2023. A former journalist, Bee worked at Vanity Fair for several years before moving to Israel-Palestine to study sacred Jewish texts. They live in Los Angeles with their dog, Pupik. Writing Now Reading Now is cosponsored by the WSU Department of English, Fairmount College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Watermark Books & Café, and the Ulrich Museum of Art. This event is free and everyone is welcome.
