Whitney Bryant
Whitney Bryant is an editor, writing coach, and creative writing teacher. In 2022, she was a semifinalist for the Story Foundation Prize and a finalist for the J. F. Powers Prize for Short Fiction. Her story "Laws of Nature" has been short-listed for the 2025 Masters Review Winter Short Story Award. Her nonfiction and fiction appear in the Georgia Review and One Story (as Whitney Groves). Her book reviews regularly appear in Chapter 16. She lives in Nashville with her husband and four cats. Visit her at whitneybryantwriter.com.
Reading List
Prairie Ghost
Laying claim to her life before feels wrong, like trespassing. But everybody has to have a story, just like everybody has to have a name, even if it’s not the one intended for them at birth. She gives the customers the bare bones; they supply the flesh and blood. “When I was little,” she says, “we lived just outside Winston/Toms River/Pine Bluff.”