Kyle Minor

Creative Nonfiction Writer, Fiction Writer

Author's Bio

Kyle Minor is the author of In the Devil’s Territory (2008) and Praying Drunk (2014), winner of the 2015 Story Prize Spotlight Award. His stories and essays have appeared in Best American Mystery Stories 2008 & 2015, Twentysomething Essays by Twentysomething Writers, Forty Stories: New Voices from Harper Perennial, and Best American Nonrequired Reading 2013. His reviews and interviews appear online and in print at Tin House, The Believer, and the New York Times Book Review.

Publications & Prizes

Creative Nonfiction

Anthology:
Twentysomething Essays by Twentysomething Writers (Random House, 2006)
Journal:
Gulf Coast

Fiction

Anthologies:
Best American Nonrequired Reading (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013)
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Forty Stories (Harper Perennial, 2012)
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The Best American Mystery Stories (Houghton Mifflin, 2008)
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Scoring from Second (University of Nebraska Press, 2007)
,
Surreal South (Press 53, 2007)
Books:
Praying Drunk (Sarabande Books, 2015)
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In the Devil's Territory (Dzanc Books, 2008)
Journals:
Carolina Quarterly
,
Gettysburg Review
,
Iowa Review
,
Mid-American Review
,
River Teeth
,
Southern Review
Prizes won: 

Story Prize Spotlight Award
Best American Mystery Stories selection (twice)
Best American Nonrequired Reading selection
Iowa Review Prize for Short Fiction 2012
Random House's Best New Voices of 2006
The Columbus Dispatch's 20 Under 30 New Artists to Watch
3-time honoree in the annual Atlantic Monthly contest (in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry)
Tara M. Kroger Prize for Short Fiction
Helen Earnhardt Harley Fellowship in Creative Writing
Roorbach Prize for Creative Nonfiction

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Last update: Mar 29, 2017