'A Personal History of Arson.' The Best Small Fictions 2017.Re-Issued 2017 by Bull City Press, Durham, NC. Our Hearts Will Burn Us Down: A Novel.New York: HarperCollins (Forthcoming Winter 2019). Notable Story, Best American Non-Required Reading 2011.Winner, 2012 Copper Nickel Fiction Contest.Winner, 2011 Dzanc Books Short Story Prize.Georges and Anne Borchardt Scholar in Fiction, Sewanee Writers’ Conference 2014.Finalist Award and Publication, 2015 Chicago Tribune Nelson Algren Award.Winner, 2016 Jay Prefontaine Heartland Fiction Prize.Dakin Fellowship in Fiction, Sewanee Writers’ Conference 2017. The pirates posted video clips which you can still find on Youtube. She previously taught at Santa Fe University of Art and Design. He got there around November and was abducted in January 2012. Louis, master’s of fine arts in fiction from Bowling Green State University, and her doctorate in creative writing and literature from the University of Cincinnati. Valente earned her bachelor’s degree from Washington University in St. Valente has been awarded fellowships from the Sewanee Writers' Conference, the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers' Conference and the Women's International Study Center, and her work has been recognized in Best Small Fictions 2017 and Best American Essays 2022 Her short stories appear in American Short Fiction, The Kenyon Review, One Story and The Chicago Tribune, and her essays appear in The Believer, Guernica, Literary Hub and The Washington Post. Anne Valente is the author of two novels, Our Hearts Will Burn Us Down and The Desert Sky Before Us, as well as the short story collection, By Light We Knew Our Names, which won the Dzanc Prize.

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