Rebeccah von Schlieffen grew up in Tucson, Arizona and the San Francisco Bay Area. She studied music (classical voice) at Mills College in Oakland. In 1999, she moved to Berlin where she still lives today. She became a dual US-German citizen in 2019.
Rebeccah writes mainly speculative literary fiction. She’s had work published in Gone Lawn, PANK, Sixfold and Verdad, and recently finished a novel called Dick & Jane. Currently, she is working on her second novel and a collection of short stories.
Her alter ego, Rebeccah Dean, is a Vedic astrologer.
Here’s a list of some of the things and people that influence Rebeccah’s work and/or make her feel happy:
Kelly Link, Octavia Butler, Philip K. Dick, Charles Dickens, Karen Russell, George Saunders, Richard Brautigan, Yoko Ogawa, Kathleen Ferrier, Nathalie Stutzmann, Joan Sutherland, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Kiri Te Kanawa, Hermann Prey, Teresa Berganza, Bach, Purcell, Scarlatti, Schumann, Verdi, Mozart, singing, playing violin, opera in general (except Wagner), making jewellery, silk, beautiful clothes, beautiful clothes made of silk, beautiful shoes that are not made of silk because that would be impractical, gemstones!!, Patti Smith, Prince, Leonard Cohen, The Beatles, Lou Reed, The Violent Femmes, David Bowie, The Ramones, Björk, Kate Bush, James Taylor (because she listened to him in her crib), Bill Evans, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, animals of all shapes and sizes (especially giant yet friendly lizards), the ocean, the desert, Japan, the Vendée, animal rescue videos, day trips, Jyotish, horary, Sanskrit, Vedic chanting, making lists that never end