Rebecca Godfrey

Rebecca Godfrey was a Canadian novelist and non-fiction writer born in Toronto and raised partly in Victoria, British Columbia. She worked as a journalist and later taught creative writing as an adjunct professor at Columbia University. She is best known for "Under the Bridge" (2005), a nonfiction account of the 1997 murder of Reena Virk that was adapted into a 2024 Hulu limited series starring Riley Keough and Lily Gladstone; her debut novel "The Torn Skirt" (2001) was a finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, and her posthumous novel "Peggy," about Peggy Guggenheim, was completed from her notes by Leslie Jamison and published in 2024.