Wendy Brenner
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Wendy Brenner is currently an Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington
. Brenner is the author of two books. Her stories and essays have appeared in such magazines as Allure, Seventeen, Travel & Leisure, Ploughshares, and Mississippi Review, and have been anthologized in Best American Magazine Writing and New Stories From the South. She is a contributing writer for The Oxford American
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University of North Carolina at Wilmington
The University of North Carolina at Wilmington, sometimes referred to as UNC Wilmington, is a public, co-educational university located in Wilmington, North Carolina...
. Brenner is the author of two books. Her stories and essays have appeared in such magazines as Allure, Seventeen, Travel & Leisure, Ploughshares, and Mississippi Review, and have been anthologized in Best American Magazine Writing and New Stories From the South. She is a contributing writer for The Oxford American
Oxford American
The Oxford American is an American quarterly literary magazine "dedicated to featuring the very best in Southern writing while documenting the complexity and vitality of the American South."-First publication:...
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Books
- Phone Calls From the Dead (2001)
- Large Animals in Everyday Life: Stories (1997)
Education
- Master of Fine Arts from the University of FloridaUniversity of FloridaThe University of Florida is an American public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university located on a campus in Gainesville, Florida. The university traces its historical origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its present Gainesville campus since September 1906...
, 1991. - Bachelor of Arts from Oberlin CollegeOberlin CollegeOberlin College is a private liberal arts college in Oberlin, Ohio, noteworthy for having been the first American institution of higher learning to regularly admit female and black students. Connected to the college is the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, the oldest continuously operating...
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Awards
- Flannery O'Connor Award for Short FictionFlannery O'Connor Award for Short FictionThe 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....
(for Large Animals In Everyday Life) - National Magazine AwardNational Magazine AwardThe National Magazine Awards are a series of US awards that honor excellence in the magazine industry. They are administered by the American Society of Magazine Editors and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York City...
Finalist, 2006 - National Endowment for the ArtsNational Endowment for the ArtsThe National Endowment for the Arts is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created by an act of the U.S. Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government. Its current...
Fellowship - Associated Writing Programs Intro Award
- Transatlantic ReviewTransatlantic ReviewTransatlantic Review was a literary journal founded and edited by Joseph F. McCrindle in 1959, and published at first in Rome, then London and New York...
/Henfield Foundation Award.