About Leigh Allison Wilson

Leigh Allison Wilson is the author of two collections of stories, one of which won The Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. Her stories have appeared in print in journals such as The Georgia Review, Grand Street, Harper’s, The Kenyon Review, Mademoiselle and The Southern Review, and online in journals such as Fiction Southeast, The New Flash Fiction Review, Smokelong Quarterly, and wigleaf. She teaches at SUNY Oswego, on the shores of Lake Ontario.

Awards:
Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction
Saltonstall Award for Creative Nonfiction
Pulitzer Prize nomination by William Morrow, for
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Michener Fellow of the Copernicus Society
Henry Hoyns Fellow of the University of Virginia

 

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