Author Bio
• Birth—ca. 1978-79
• Where—Waterbury, Connecticut, USA
• Education—M.F.A., University of North Carolina; M.L.I.S., University of Alabama
• Awards—Prairie Schooner Book Prize-Fiction
• Currently—lives in Athens, Georgia
Xhenet Aliu’s debut novel, Brass, was published in 2018. Her short fiction collection, Domesticated Wild Things, and Other Stories, published in 2013, won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction. Aliu's stories and essays have appeared in Glimmer Train, Barcelona Review, American Short Fiction, and elsewhere.
A native of Waterbury, Connecticut, Aliu was born to an Albanian father and a Lithuanian American mother. She holds an MFA from the University of North Carolina Wilmington and an MLIS from The University of Alabama and now lives in Athens, Georgia, where she works as an academic librarian. (Adapted from the author's website.)
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