Xhenet Aliu

Xhenet Aliu’s novel, Brass, was awarded the biennial Townsend Prize for Fiction, the Georgia Author of the Year Award for First Novel prize, was long-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, and was named a best book of 2018 by a number of media outlets. Her previous story collection, Domesticated Wild Things, won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in fiction. She teaches creative writing at the University of North Carolina Greensboro.