M. C. Benner Dixon

Fiction Writer, Creative Nonfiction Writer

Pittsburgh, PA
Pennsylvania US

Author's Bio

M. C. Benner Dixon lives, writes, and grows things in Pittsburgh, PA. She is quick to make a pun and slow to cut her grass. Her novel, The Height of Land, was the winner of the Orison Fiction Prize. Millions of Suns: On Writing and Life, a collection of craft essays, is available from the University of Michigan Press. 

Literary agent: 
Naomi Davis, BookEnds Literary

Publications & Prizes

Creative Nonfiction

Book:
Millions of Suns: On Writing and Life (University of Michigan Press, 2023)
Journals:
Heartwood Literary Magazine
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Fiction

Book:
The Height of Land (Orison Books, 2025)
Journals:
Flash Fiction Online
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Northern Appalachia Review
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The Hopper
Prizes won: 

Orison Fiction Prize

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