Whitney Collins

Whitney Collins is the author of Ricky & Other Love Stories, which was longlisted for The Story Prize, and Big Bad, which won the Mary McCarthy Prize, a Gold Medal IPPY, and a Bronze Medal INDIES. She’s received a Best American Short Stories Distinguished Story, a Pushcart Prize, a Pushcart Prize Special Mention, and the American Short(er) Fiction Prize. Her stories have appeared in American Short Fiction, AGNI, The Idaho Review, and The Los Angeles Review, among others. She is the Associate Director of Spalding University’s Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing.