Aaron
Gwyn, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of English
Education
• Ph.D. University of Denver
• M.A. Oklahoma State University
• B.A. East Central University Area of Interest
• Fiction Writing Recent Publications
Books:
Gone: A Novel. New York: W.W. Norton & Co. Forthcoming Fall 2008
Dog on the Cross: Stories. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2004.
Stories in Anthologies and Textbooks:
“The Offering,” Where Love Is Found: 24 Tales of Connection. 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 Dixie 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:
“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 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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