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Rebecca Bengal

About

Rebecca Bengal is a writer of fiction, essays, and reported nonfiction whose stories appear in numerous publications. She last wrote for the Oxford American about the Piedmont blues musician Etta Baker. Born and raised in North Carolina, she currently lives in Brooklyn.

Articles

Issue 103, Winter 2018

That Chord!

By Rebecca Bengal
Issue 115, Winter 2021

Country Boy Gone City

The El Grotto is a neighborhood bar—beer, wine, records on the jukebox, fights on the regular, and sometimes, guns drawn.

By Rebecca Bengal
Issue 116, Spring 2022

Coda for Winfred Rembert

Working with a bevel, a pear shader, and an assortment of tools, some of which he made by hand, Rembert carved and rendered the tales of his life.

By Rebecca Bengal