Rebecca Eckland

Rebecca A. Eckland is a writer based in Reno, Nevada. She is the author of the 2018 bestselling memoir A Court of Refuge: Stories from the Bench of America’s First Mental Health Court by Judge Ginger Lerner-Wren. She is also the ghostwriter for the 2013 memoir Cracked, Not Broken: Surviving and Thriving After a Suicide Attempt by Kevin Hines. Her essays have appeared in Nevada Magazine, The Transformational Power of Arts Journal, Sierra Nevada Review, Animal: A Beast of a Literary Magazine, Stereo Embers Magazine, The Meadow, Hotel Amerika, TAYO Literary Journal, and Weber: The Contemporary West. She holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction writing from Saint Mary’s College of California and two Master of Arts degrees in English and Foreign Languages and Literatures (with an emphasis on French) awarded by the University of Nevada, Reno.