A lifelong English teacher, she has actually educated in colleges and colleges on 3 continents, however her irreversible home is a 6-acre ranch in Woodstock, GA.. Her fiction has been released in many magazines, including The Georgia Review, Gertrude Press, and Fiction International, and she got an honorable mention for The Most Effective American Short Stories 2018.

Her debut tale collection individuals WISH TO LIVE published with McSweeney's Books on October 26th, and includes brand-new tales and some previously released in VQR, Shenandoah, The Arkansas International, MQR, The Southern Evaluation, Kenyon Review, Copper Nickel, and others.

He has given workshops and readings at universities and creating conferences around the U.S., consisting of AWP, Lake Woodland's & Now collection, the National Creating Project at Colorado State University, and the Bankhead Seeing Writers Series at the College of Alabama.

The AWP Author to Author Mentorship Program matches arising writers with well-known writers for a three-month series of components on topics such as craft, revision, publishing, and the writing life. The Dzanc Creative Writing Mentorship is a distinct online writing mentorship for authors program made for authors to function one-on-one with released editors and authors to shape their short story, unique, poem, or essay.

He resides in Wichita, Kansas, with his spouse and children, and he routes the Wichita State College writing program. Julie Ann Stewart made an MFA from Spalding University and has published stories in Great River Journal, Litro Publication, PoemMemoirStory and Punch Drunk Press.