Wendy BrennerWENDY BRENNER is the author of two books of short fiction, Large Animals in Everyday Life, her first collection and winner of the 1995 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, and Phone Calls From the Dead. Her stories and essays haveappeared in Best American Essays, Best American Magazine Writing, New Stories From the South, Oxford American, The Sun, Allure, Travel & Leisure, Seventeen, Guernica, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a contributing editor for The Oxford American, and an associate professor of creative writing at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. Read More Read Less