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Bryn Chancellor [1]

Listed as: 
Fiction Writer
Public address: 
Charlotte, NC
North Carolina US
Email: 
info@brynchancellor.com
Bio: 

Bryn Chancellor is the author of the novel Sycamore (Harper/HarperCollins 2017), which was a Southwest Book of the Year, an Indie Next and LibraryReads pick, an Amazon Editors’ Best Book of 2017, and among Bustle‘s Best Debuts of 2017. Her story collection When Are You Coming Home? (University of Nebraska Press 2015) won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize, and her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The Southern Review, Ecotone, Brevity, Gulf Coast, Colorado Review, and elsewhere. A native of California raised in Arizona and transplanted to the South, she is a grateful recipient of fellowships from the Alabama, Arizona, and North Carolina arts councils and the Poets and Writers Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award. A graduate of Vanderbilt University’s M.F.A. program, she makes her home in Charlotte, NC, with artist Timothy Winkler and is associate professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Website: 
https://www.brynchancellor.com [2]
Prizes won: 
  • Poets & Writers Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award
  • Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize
  • North Carolina Arts Council Literature Fellowship
  • Alabama State Council on the Arts Literary Fellowship
  • Arizona Commission on the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship and Project Grant
Education: 
Vanderbilt University
What I'm reading now: 
Trust by Hernan Diaz
The Gatherin by Anne Enright
Writers Retreats: 
Hambidge Creative Residency Program
Jentel Artist Residency
Identifies as: 
American

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