Xhenet Aliu

Xhenet Aliu’s novel Brass (Random House, 2018), a Barnes & Noble “Discover Great New Writers” selection, was awarded the biennial Townsend Prize in 2020 and the 2018 Georgia Author of the Year First Novel Prize. Her debut story collection, Domesticated Wild Things (University of Nebraska Press, 2013), won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction. Aliu’s writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, Glimmer Train, and elsewhere, and she has been awarded fellowships to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and Djerassi Resident Artist Program. She teaches creative writing at the University of North Carolina Greensboro.