Rebecca Chace
Books
Talking to the Wolf
Forthcoming from Red Hen Press Spring 2026
"Rebecca Chace’s Talking to the Wolf is so richly peopled I feel like I could put a letter in the mail to any of its characters. Each one is so full of singular life, so delightfully painfully earnest in their messy trying. This is a book about friendship, family, love, memory, and the metamorphic, often corrosive, effect of time on each. As Chace’s characters move into shaky reunion, their pasts and presents tangle and fray, forcing them to finally put into words what has for too long remained unspoken. As one of them concludes, “There might be a song in it.”
-- Kaveh Akbar, author of Martyr!
"This tale of four friends (one a ghost) takes us across thirty-five years of tumultuous attachment. How alive these women are–including the dead one–and how forever bonded, even with their separate versions of the truth. A terrific book. "
-- Joan Silber, author of Secrets of Happiness
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About
Rebecca Chace is the award-winning author of Leaving Rock Harbor, Capture the Flag , Chautauqua Summer, June Sparrow and The Million Dollar Penny, with her forthcoming novel Talking to the Wolf (Red Hen Press, May 2026).
Her plays include Obit, Beka, 14, Colette, and The Awakening (adaptation from Kate Chopin). She has also written for film and contributes to numerous publications, including The New York Times, The Yale Review, The LA Review, The New England Review, and Lit Hub. Chace has held fellowships at MacDowell, Yaddo, Civitella Ranieri, and others. She is a faculty associate at Bard College’s Institute for Writing and Thinking.
Author photos by Marco Giugliarelli for Civitella Ranieri Foundation