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

“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

Fires and Other News: A Novel
Short stories and essays

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, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 2019-

Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 2015-19

Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Montevallo, 2009-2015 (awarded tenure and promotion in April 2015)