Rita's exquisite book, Headshot,is one of LitHub & The Independent 2024 Most Anticipated Books. Plus, it featured on the Oprah Daily Spring 2024 List.
Rita's been praised in The Washington Post, Guardian, Spectator Australia, The New York Times, Publisher's Weekly, ABC News & Telegraph Praise. She's also been interviewed about by NPR & LitHub.
Her previous book, Belly Up, won the 2022 Whiting Award. Both her novels have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes.
Rita is also an Associate Professor at the University of San Fransisco where she teaches courses on creative writing, zines, and the use of invented and foreign languages as tools for world building. She's been translated into German, Italian, Greek and Dutch.
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