Leigh Allison Wilson

Leigh Allison Wilson
Leigh Allison Wilson
Born	October 23, 1957 (age 67); Rogersville, Tennessee, U.S.
Occupation	Novelist, short story writer
Notable awards	Flannery O'Connor Award

Leigh Allison Wilson, (born October 23, 1957) is an American short story writer, and teacher. Her work has appeared in Harper's, Grand Street, and the Southern Review.^[1] Her story "Bullhead" was read on National Public Radio in 2008.

Biography

Wilson was born in Rogersville, Tennessee. She graduated from Williams College, magna cum laude, studied at University of Virginia, and graduated from Iowa Writers' Workshop with an MFA.^[2]^[3] She resides in Oswego, New York, where she teaches at the State University of New York at Oswego.^[4] She teaches at University of Nebraska, Omaha.^[5] Wilson's first book of stories, From the Bottom Up, was published by Penguin Books and won the Flannery O'Connor Award from the University of Georgia Press.^[5]

Awards

Flannery O'Connor Award for From The Bottom Up
Pulitzer Prize nominated for Wind
James A. Michener Fellow of the Copernicus Society

Works

"Bullhead", flashquake, Fall 2004, Volume 4, Issue 1
"Positional Vertigo", flashquake, Spring 2008, Volume 7 Issue 3
From The Bottom Up. University of Georgia Press. 2008. ISBN 978-0-8203-3293-2.
Wind stories. W. Morrow. 1989. ISBN 978-0-688-08111-9.

References

^ "Leigh Allison Wilson". Harper's Magazine. Retrieved 2010-01-31.
^ "Leigh Allison Wilson". The University of Tennessee. Archived from the original on 2012-02-22. Retrieved 2010-01-31.
^ Sandra L. Ballard; Patricia L. Hudson (2003). Listen here: women writing in Appalachia. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 978-0-8131-9066-2.
^ "Lew Turco & Leigh Allison Wilson". Poetics and Ruminations. Retrieved 2010-01-31.
^ ^a ^b "MFA in Writing". University of Nebraska. Archived from the original on 2010-05-29. Retrieved 2010-01-31.