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Aaron Gwyn

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ENGL_gwynEducation

  • Ph.D. University of Denver
  • M.A. Oklahoma State University
  • B.A. East Central University

Area of Interest

  • Fiction Writing

Selected Publications and Presentations

Books of Fiction:

The World Beneath: A Novel. New York: W.W. Norton, 2009

Dog on the Cross: Stories. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2004.

Stories in Anthologies and Textbooks:

“Drive,” New Stories from the South: The Year’s Best, 2010. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2010. 181-194.

“The Offering,” Where Love Is Found: 24 Tales of Connecion. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2006.
161-174.

“Of Falling,” Behind the Short Story: From First to Final Draft. New York: Longman-Pearson, 2006. 81-88.

“The Road to Tarshish,” A Dixis Christmas. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2005. 81-101.

“Of Falling,” New Stories from the South: The Year’s Best, 2002. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2002. 81-94.

Selected Story Publications in Literary Magazines:

“Drive,” The Gettysburg Review 22.4 (2009): 509-519

“The Gray,” Esquire. Esquire Magazine/Hearst Corporation, 24 April (2009).

“Look At Me,” McSweeney’s 24 (2007)

“Mate,” McSweeney’s 20 (2006): 232-45

“The Offering,” Glimmer Train 57 (2006): 52-65.

“Visitation, Indiana Review 27.1 (2005): 158.

“Truck,” Black Warrior Review 29.2 (2003): 39-53.

Grants:

2005 Fiction Fellowship from the North Carolina Council on the Arts

Courses Taught:

  • ENGL 6070: Writing Fiction
  • ENGL 5203/4203: Writing Fiction
  • ENGL 3300: American Literature
  • ENGL 2128: Introduction to Fiction Writing

Awards:

  • Short Story, “Mate,” Originally Published in McSweeney’s, Selected by Stephen King as a “Distinguished Story” in Best American Stories 2007
  • Finalist for the 2005 New York Public Library Young Lions Award for Dog on the Cross
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