Prof. Wendy Brenner

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  about Wendy BrennerWendy 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. books by Wendy Brenner:

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  Wendy Brenner, Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator of the MFA program in Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, offers the following tips for conducting one's self appropriately at the interview:
  
  Think of yourself as a colleague, not a graduate student. Potential faculty colleagues are looking for someone who

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  Alive and odd and needy, the characters in Wendy Brenner's stories grapple with the extraordinary and the ordinary, searching for answers from unlikely sources, striving to connect with each other and with something greater than themselves.Amidst a world of technological, natural, and possibly supernatural phenomena, they struggle with the most human of losses and longings.
  
  Named one of twenty-five fiction writers to watch by Writer's Digest (along with Allegra Goodman, Jhumpa Lahiri, and William Gay), Brenner has been paving a new path through American fiction ever since her first collection, Large Animals in Everyday Life.
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  Whether it moves you to uncontrollable laughter or to tears, you won't soon forget Wendy Brenner's work.
  
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  about Wendy BrennerWendy 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.

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  I'd read a fascinating story about Dean Ripa by a great writer named Wendy Brenner in Oxford American magazine more than a year earlier.

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  - Wendy Brenner on being the maid of honor in a gay wedding

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  "Only a few times in the 15-plus years I've taught have I encountered an assignment that seemed really threatening," said Wendy Brenner, an associate professor of creative writing.
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  "When we are confronted with work that raises concern, we generally to try talk with the student outside of class, to get a sense of whether he or she is really in trouble," Brenner said.In such cases, she and her colleagues try to refer the students to counseling and let them know what support services are available.
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  "You wouldn't believe how many of our students, undergrads, want to write about serial killers," Brenner said.
  
  In such cases, she added, the students might be "just trying to be shocking, or don't trust that their own original material is interesting, or don't even know they have material."
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  "As instructors, we sometimes have to remind ourselves that we are not psychologists and writing workshops aren't therapy," Brenner said.

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  client list: CAMILLE BACON-SMITH - ENTERPRISING WOMEN: Television Fandom and the Creation of Popular Myth, CURT BENJAMIN - THE PRINCE OF SHADOW (Seven Brothers, Book 1), WENDY BRENNER - LARGE ANIMALS IN EVERYDAY LIFE (University of Georgia Press), PAUL ENGLEMAN- DEAD IN CENTER FIELD (Ballantine)

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  Wendy Brenner was born in Chicago and currently teaches at University of North Carolina-Wilmington.Her stories have appeared in various publications, and her short story collection, Large Animals in Everyday Life, won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction.She was awarded an NEA fellowship in 2000.Phone Calls from the Dead

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