Teresa Burns Gunther

Fiction Writer, Creative Nonfiction Writer

Oakland, CA

California US

Website:

www.teresaburnsg.com

Twitter/X:

@TBurnsGunther

Author's Bio

Teresa is an award-winning author whose fiction and nonfiction are published widely in US and international literary journals and anthologies. "Hold Off The Night," June 2023, (Finalist for Orison, and Hudson, Book Prizes). Her new collection, "The Adjacent Possible" (Longlisted for the Dzanc Book Prize )is forthcoming from Cornerstone Press, 2027. Her work has been recognized in many contests, awarded the 2023 Gemini Short Story Prize and the 2022 New Millennium Award for Fiction and most recently finalist for Uncharted Magazine’s 2025 Humor Challenge.

Teresa is the founder of Lakeshore Writers Workshop in Oakland, California where she leads creative writing workshops, classes and works one-on-one with writers. Her writer interviews have appeared in Zyzzyva, Shambhala Sun, Glimmertrain Writers Ask and more.

Writers Retreats:

Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference

Community of Writers

Lit Camp

Taos Writers Conference

Tin House Summer Workshop

Vermont Studio Center

Publications & Prizes

Creative Nonfiction

Anthologies:

"Oh Brother" LOVE Anthology (Pure Slush, 2021)

Growing Up, Lifespan, Vol II (Pure Slush, 2021)

Journal:

Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review

Fiction

Anthologies:

Stories That Need To Be Told (TulipTree Publishing, 2022)

2014: A Year In Stories (Pure Slush, 2015)

OBIT (Pure Slush, 2013)

Best New Writing 2012 (Hopewell Publications, 2012)

Books:

The Adjacent Possible (Cornerstone Press, 2027)

Hold Off The Night (Truth Serum Press, 2023)

Journals:

Alaska Quarterly Review

Berkeley Fiction Review

Courtship of Winds

Dogwood: A Journal of Poetry & Prose

Flashquake

Lynx Eye

Madison Review

Mid-American Review

New Millennium Writings

New Ohio Review

Next Tribe

Northwind

Parcel

Peregrine

Pure Slush

Scribble

Stone's Throw

Stone's Throw Magazine

The Madison Review

The Mag

The Storyteller

Thin Air Magazine

Uncharted Magazine

Prizes won:

Winner, 2023 Gemini Short Story Prize, Longlisted for the Dzanc Book Prize, Winner New Millennium Writings Annual Fiction Award 2022, Finalist, 2019 Sherwood Anderson (Story Collection) Prize; Finalist 2019 J. F. Powers Prize for Short Fiction; Finalist 2018 Hudson Prize; Finalist, New Letters 2018 Prize for Fiction Semi-Finalist 2016 Iowa Short Fiction Award; Honorable Mention, New Millennium Writings 2017 Short-Short Fiction Award; Finalist Glimmertrain Family Matters Contest 2016, (and twice in 2014); Finalist Rick DeMarinis Short Story Award, Cutthroat Magazine 2015; Finalist Tupelo Quarterly 2015 Prose Prize; Finalist Narrative Journal 2012 Spring Fiction Contest; Top-Ten Finalist Northwind, Fall 2012 Fiction Contest; 3rd Place Winner Raymond Carver Short Story Award, 2011--Semi-Finalist Best New Writing 2012; Finalist: Eric Hoffer Award For Prose Norman Mailer Writers Colony Semifinalist: 2011 Raymond Carver Short Story Award; New Millennium Writings 32nd Short-Short Fiction Contest 2012; Honorable Mention Flashquake Spring 2010 "Editor's Pick"; Finalist, Pen and Brush, Inc 2007 Fiction Contest; Honorable Mention Finalist, Pheobe Journal Winter 2004 Fiction Contest; August Highland’s The Mag--Featured Writer Summer 2004

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Prefers to work with:

Any

Fluent in:

English

Born in:

California

Raised in:

California

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Last update: Jul 19, 2026