Rebekah Anderson is a Seattle-based writer and third generation Washington native whose family came to the Pacific Northwest as a result of the Homesteading Act. She earned an MFA in Fiction from New York University, where she began work on THE GRAND PROMISE (Empty Bowl, 2022) as her thesis project under the mentorship of E.L. Doctorow. Loosely based on her family history, THE GRAND PROMISE is her first novel.