Fiction Writer
Publications & Prizes
Anthologies:
Kenyon Review Readings for Writers (Kenyon Review, 2009)
, Best American Fantasy (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2007)
Books:
The Wonder Test (Grove Press, 2021)
, The Marriage Pact (Bantam/Dell, 2017)
, Golden State (Bantam/Dell, 2014)
, Hum: Stories (Fiction Collective Two, 2014)
, No One You Know (Bantam/Dell, 2008)
, The Year of Fog (Bantam/Dell, 2007)
, Dream of the Blue Room (MacAdam/Cage, 2003)
, The Girl in the Fall-Away Dress (University of Massachusetts Press, 2001)
Journals:
Boulevard
, , , , , Glimmer Train
, , Identity Theory
, Kenyon Review
, , Mississippi Review
, , Other Voices
, , Playboy
Prizes won:
Truman Capte Prize for Alabama's Distinguished Writer of the Short Story (2019); Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize (2014); Palle Rosenkrantz Prize for the Best Foreign Crime Novel Published in Denmark (2017); Hillsdale Award, Fellowship of Southern Writers, 2009 Mississippi Review Prize, 2006 Associated Writing Programs Award (Grace Paley Prize), 2000; James Michener Fellowship, 1996-1998 Walker E. Dakin Fellowship, 2003
More Information
Gives readings:
Yes
Travels for readings:
Yes
Prefers to work with:
Adults
Fluent in:
English
Born in:
Demopolis
Raised in:
Mobile,
AL
Alabama
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Last update: Jan 29, 2022