Wendy Brenner | |
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Nationality | American |
Alma mater | University of Florida Oberlin College |
Wendy Brenner is an American writer of fiction and nonfiction and an Associate Professor at University of North Carolina Wilmington (1997-2023), where she won the university's Graduate Mentor Award for her work with MFA students. [1] Brenner is the author of two books, the first of which won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. [2] Her short stories and essays have appeared in such magazines as Allure, Seventeen, Travel & Leisure, The Oxford American , The Sun (magazine) , Ploughshares, [3] and Mississippi Review, and have been anthologized in The Best American Essays , Best American Magazine Writing , and New Stories From the South , as well as other anthologies. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for her fiction, and is a Contributing Editor for The Oxford American. In 2016, she was named one of the "Queens of Nonfiction: 56 Women Journalists Everyone Should Read" on New York magazine's "The Cut" blog.
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