Department of English

Xhenet Aliu

Office: MHRA 3308

Education

M.F.A., University of North Carolina Wilmington

M.L.I.S., University of Alabama

B.A., Southern Connecticut State University

Research Interests

Fiction, creative nonfiction, working-class literature, feminism, diaspora literature, archival research

Selected Publications

• Alternate Ending: Shenandoah, 2020, vol. 79.1, Fall 2020
• Brass (novel): Random House, 2018
• Foreword for Upstate: Daylight Books, 2018
• Book review: Gunners by Rebecca Kauffman, The New York Times, 2018
• “Not Nice,” Extraordinary Rendition: (American) Writers on Palestine. O/R Books, 2015
• Domesticated Wild Things and Other Stories: University of Nebraska Press, 2013

Selected Awards and Honors

• Townsend Prize for Fiction, 2020
• Georgia Author of the Year: First Novel Category winner, 2019
• Sewanee Writers Conference, fellowship, 2019
• Center for Fiction First Novel Prize long-list, 2018
• Barnes & Noble “Discover Great New Writers” selection, 2018
• Bread Loaf Writers Conference, fellowship, 2017

Xhenet Aliu’s website.

Bookshelf

Domesticated Wild Things and other Stories

Book by Xhenet Aliu

Brass

Book by Xhenet Aliu