Background

MFA, University of Florida 1991

BA, Oberlin College 1987

Awards

National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship

Flannery O'Connor Award

North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship

Henfield Award

AWP Intro Award

On teaching

It is my goal in writing workshops to lead students into "battle with the inexpressible," or facilitate that battle, should students already find themselves on the front lines. I am especially interested in those moments in fiction that are most inexplicable, inevitable, intuitive, devastating, holy—I want to know why and how they work. 

"But there are always a few artists ghosting around who invite us to do the work of beauty, and who give us back our humor when we are terrified." —Carol Bly, "The Apprentice"

Download an excerpt of Wendy Brenner's work (pdf)

Publications

Phone Calls from the Dead: Stories (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2001)

Large Animals in Everyday Life: Stories (University of Georgia Press; W. W. Norton, 1997)

Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction