Toni Graham

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Toni Graham
BornToni Avila
1945
San Francisco
Occupation Fiction writer, professor, editor The Cimarron Review
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater San Francisco State University
Genre Fiction
Notable awards Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction

Toni Graham (born 1945) is an American fiction writer. She is a professor of English at Oklahoma State University; she also serves as editor and fiction editor for The Cimarron Review .

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Biography

Graham earned an MFA in fiction writing from San Francisco State University. [1] She has taught fiction writing at Oklahoma State University since 2000 and is Professor of English/Creative Writing. [2] She has served as editor for the Cimarron Review since 2011 and as fiction editor from 2000 to the present.

Before being appointed to the faculty at Oklahoma State University, Graham taught creative writing at a number of California universities, including University of San Francisco; Santa Clara University; University of California, Santa Cruz; and Chico State.

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