Xhenet Aliu
Xhenet Aliu is the author of the novel Brass, a Barnes & Noble “Discover Great New Writers” selection, winner of the Townsend Prize, the Georgia Author of the Year First Novel Prize, and long-listed for the 2018 Center for Fiction First Book Prize. Her first book, Domesticated Wild Things and Other Stories, won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction. Aliu’s writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, Glimmer Train, Buzzfeed, and elsewhere, and she’s received fellowships from the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences, a grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation, and a fellowship from the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, among other awards, including a special mention in the Pushcart Prize anthology. She teaches Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina Greensboro.