Bryn Chancellor

Education

• M.F.A., Creative Writing (Fiction), Vanderbilt University
• M.A., English Literature, Arizona State University
• B.A., English, Northern Arizona University

Research Interests

Fiction writing, creative nonfiction writing, contemporary American fiction and nonfiction, psychogeography/the writer as walker, comix/graphic narratives, race/gender/class/sexuality studies

Courses Taught

• ENGL 2128: Intro to Fiction Writing
• ENGL 3202: Intermediate Fiction Writing
• ENGL 4203/5203: Writing Fiction
• ENGL 4206: Writing Creative Nonfiction
• ENGL 4209: Fiction Writing Workshop: Flash Fiction
• ENGL 6073: Topics in Creative Writing

Publications

Books

• Sycamore, Harper/HarperCollins (May 9, 2017)
• When Are You Coming Home?: Stories, University of Nebraska Press (Sept. 1, 2015)

Short Fiction

• “The Moon, the Pyramids, the World,” NELLE, winter 2019
• “This Is Not an Exit,” descant, 2014
• “When Are You Coming Home?” Blackbird 10.2 (2011).
• “All This History at Once.” PMS: poemmemoirstory 10 (2010): 113-117.
• “Wrestling Night.” The Yalobusha Review 13 (2008): 101-109.
• “The New Girl.” The Fourth River, 4 (2007): 50-58.
• “Meet Me Here.” Gulf Coast 18.1 (2006): 12-24.
• “At the Terminal.” Blackbird 3.2 (2004).
• “In My Former Life.” CutBank 62 (2004): 42-56.
• “Fossil Light.” Phoebe 33. 2 (2004): 98-115.
• “Any Sign of Light.” Colorado Review  31. 1 (2004): 34-44.
• “Start With the Walls.” The Cream City Review 27. 2 (2003): 31-42.
• “Water at Midnight.” Crazyhorse 62 (2002): 20-28.

Creative Nonfiction

• “Arterial,” Crazyhorse, Issue 98, Fall 2020
• “String, Too Short,” Brevity, 14 Jan. 2019
• “Missing Worlds”: personal essay at The Common 21 June 2017
• “How to Write Suspense”: craft essay for Publishers Weekly 5 May 2017

Current Projects

• Novel
• Linked short story collection

Selected Awards and Honors

Writing

• North Carolina Arts Council Artist Fellowship
• Prairie Schooner Book Prize
• Poets & Writers Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award
• Jentel Artist Residency
• Hambidge Center Residency
• Alabama State Council on the Arts Literary Fellowship
• Arizona Commission on the Arts fellowship and project grant
• Sewanee Writers Conference Tennessee Williams Scholarship
• Bread Loaf Writers Conference David R. Sokolov Scholarship

Teaching

Honors Faculty Award, University of Montevallo, 2015

Selected Readings, Panels, Appearances, + Talks

• Southern Festival of Books
• Gertrude & Harold Vanderbilt Visiting Writers Series at Vanderbilt University
• Tucson Festival of Books and Masters Workshop
• Virginia Festival of the Book
• Alabama Book Festival
• Sensoria: A Celebration of the Literature and the Arts
• Hub City Writers Project/Spartanburg Public Library
• Hoover Public Library
• Prairie Schooner Book Prize Celebration Reading
• Winthrop University Visiting Readers Series
• University of North Carolina at Greensboro Visiting Writer’s Series
• Sewanee Young Writers Conference
• Poets & Writers WEX, McNally Jackson Books, New York City
• UAB Writers Series, University of Alabama-Birmingham
• Auburn Writers Conference Creative Reading Series
• Slash Pine Festival, University of Alabama
• Montevallo Literary Festival, University of Montevallo

Faculty Appointments

• Associate Professor, Department of English, UNC Charlotte, 2019-
• Assistant Professor, Department of English, UNC Charlotte, 2015-19
• Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Montevallo, 2009-2015 (awarded tenure and promotion in April 2015)