Wendy Brenner's first collection of stories, Large Animals in Everyday Life, was the winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award. Her stories have appeared in the Oxford American, Mississippi Review, Five Points, and Story, among others. She is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and has won the Henfield Transatlantic Review Award. She is contributing writer for the Oxford American and is a professor at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.