Wendy Brenner is an American writer of fiction and nonfiction and an Associate Professor at University of North Carolina Wilmington. Brenner is the author of two books, the first of which won the

Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction The Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction is an annual prize awarded by the University of Georgia Press named in honor of the American short story writer and novelist Flannery O'Connor. Established in 1983 to encourage young writers by bringi ...

. Her short stories and essays have appeared in such magazines as ''Allure'', ''Seventeen'', ''Travel & Leisure'', ''

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'', '' The Sun (magazine)'', ''Ploughshares'', and ''Mississippi Review'', and have been anthologized in '' The Best American Essays'', ''

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'', and ''

New Stories From the South ''New Stories from the South'' is an annual compilation of short stories published by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill between 1986 and 2010 and billed as the year's best stories written by Southern writers or about the Southern United States. The s ...

'', as well as other anthologies. She is the recipient of a

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Fellowship for her fiction, and is a Contributing Editor for '' The Oxford American''. In 2016, she was named one of th
"Queens of Nonfiction: 56 Women Journalists Everyone Should Read"
on ''New York'' magazine's "The Cut" blog.

Bibliography

Books

*''Phone Calls From the Dead'' (2001) *''Large Animals in Everyday Life: Stories'' (1997)

Education

* Master of Fine Arts from the

University of Florida The University of Florida (Florida or UF) is a public land-grant research university in Gainesville, Florida. It is a senior member of the State University System of Florida, traces its origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its ...

, 1991. * Bachelor of Arts from

Oberlin College Oberlin College is a Private university, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college and conservatory of music in Oberlin, Ohio. It is the oldest Mixed-sex education, coeducational liberal arts college in the United S ...

, 1987.

Awards

(for ''Large Animals In Everyday Life'') *

National Magazine Award The National Magazine Awards, also known as the Ellie Awards, honor print and digital publications that consistently demonstrate superior execution of editorial objectives, innovative techniques, noteworthy enterprise and imaginative design. Or ...

Finalist, 2006 *

Fellowship *

Associated Writing Programs The Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) is a nonprofit literary organization that provides support, advocacy, resources, and community to nearly 50,000 writers, 500 college and university creative writing programs, and 125 writers' c ...

Intro Award *

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/Henfield Foundation Award.Awards won
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References

Footnotes

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