Leigh Allison Wilson
| Leigh Allison Wilson | |
|---|---|
| Born | October 23, 1957 Rogersville, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Occupation | Novelist, short story writer |
Leigh Allison Wilson, (born October 23, 1957) is an award-winning American short story writer, and teacher. Her work has appeared in Harper's, Grand Street, and the Southern Review.[1] Her story "Bullhead" was read on National Public Radio in 2008.
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[edit] Biography
Wilson was born in Rogersville, Tennessee. She graduated from Williams College, magna cum laude, studied at University of Virginia, and graduated from Iowa Writers' Workshop with an MFA.[2][3] She resides in Oswego, New York, where she teaches at the State University of New York at Oswego.[4] She teaches at University of Nebraska, Omaha.[5] Wilson's first book of stories, From the Bottom Up, was published by Penguin Books and won the Flannery O'Connor Award from the University of Georgia Press.[5]
[edit] Awards
- Flannery O'Connor Award for From The Bottom Up
- Pulitzer Prize nominated for Wind
- James A. Michener Fellow of the Copernicus Society
[edit] Works
- "Bullhead", flashquake, Fall 2004, Volume 4, Issue 1
- "Positional Vertigo", flashquake, Spring 2008, Volume 7 Issue 3
- From The Bottom Up. University of Georgia Press. 2008. ISBN 9780820332932. http://books.google.com/books?id=znnhcAXIn_8C&dq=Leigh+Allison+Wilson&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=KoGGnSq6_L&sig=tZqOm6w2mU9kl30YZVMXRcQe6T0&hl=en&ei=NszpSpiuGYOyNtiy2ZQN&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CA0Q6AEwADgK#v=onepage&q=&f=false.
- Wind stories. W. Morrow. 1989. ISBN 9780688081119.
[edit] References
- ^ "Leigh Allison Wilson". Harper's Magazine. http://www.harpers.org/subjects/LeighAllisonWilson. Retrieved 2010-01-31.
- ^ "Leigh Allison Wilson". The University of Tennessee. http://www.utc.edu/Academic/TennesseeWriters/authors/wilson.leigh.html. Retrieved 2010-01-31.
- ^ Sandra L. Ballard, Patricia L. Hudson (2003). Listen here: women writing in Appalachia. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 9780813190662. http://books.google.com/books?id=i090MbNYlIYC&pg=PA624&lpg=PA624&dq=Leigh+Allison+Wilson&source=bl&ots=sN2LRUtRzm&sig=7267esbMhKyDbOiqV1qu7BwO_x0&hl=en&ei=zM7pSqybH4nYNaPbmZgN&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CB0Q6AEwBTgK#v=onepage&q=Leigh%20Allison%20Wilson&f=false.
- ^ "Lew Turco & Leigh Allison Wilson". Poetics and Ruminations. http://lewisturco.typepad.com/photos/the_literary_life/lew-leigh.html. Retrieved 2010-01-31.
- ^ a b "MFA in Writing". University of Nebraska. http://www.unomaha.edu/unmfaw/Faculty/Faculty5.php. Retrieved 2010-01-31.
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