In a recent announcement from PEN New England and the JFK Presidential Library, Iowa Writers' Workshop graduate Rebecca Johns was named a finalist for the 2007 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for her novel Icebergs. The late Mary Hemingway, the wife of Ernest Hemingway, founded the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award in 1976 to honor her late husband and draw attention to distinguished first books of fiction.

Click here to listen to Rebecca Johns read from Icebergs on "Live from Prairie Lights," 4/26/06