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Born | Peoria, Illinois, U.S. | January 22, 1978
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Education | Colorado State University University of Montana (MFA) |
Notable works | The God of Animals (2007) |
Notable awards | National Magazine Award (2004, 2022) Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award (2005) Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award (2008) Alex Award (2008) Spur Award for Best Novel of the West (2008) |
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Aryn Kyle (born January 22, 1978) is an American novelist and short story writer. She is a 2008 recipient of the Alex Awards.
Kyle was born in Peoria, Illinois and grew up in Grand Junction, Colorado. [1] She graduated from Colorado State University in 2001 and received an MFA in fiction from the University of Montana in 2003. [2]
Kyle’s first short story, “Foaling Season”, was published by The Atlantic Monthly and went on to win a 2004 National Magazine Award in fiction. [3]
“Foaling Season” became the first chapter of Kyle’s debut novel, The God of Animals , which was published by Scribner in March 2007 and became a national bestseller. [4]
The God of Animals is the story of Alice Winston, a young girl coming of age on her family’s rundown horse ranch. The novel is set in the fictional town of Desert Valley, which Kyle based on Grand Junction, Colorado. [5] The God of Animals won an Alex Award, a Spur Award for Best Novel of the West and was named by Amazon.com as the Number One Fiction Debut of 2007. [6] [7] [8]
Kyle has had short stories published in The Atlantic Monthly , Ploughshares , The Georgia Review , The Alaska Quarterly Review , StoryQuarterly , and in the anthologies Best New American Voices 2005, and Best American Short Stories 2007 . Her short story collection, Boys and Girls Like You and Me, was released by Scribner in the spring of 2010. [9]