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Xhenet Aliu

Xhenet Aliu

Associate Professor of Creative Writing, Department of English

English

Email Address: x_aliu@uncg.edu

OFFICE

MHRA 3308

Education

M.L.I.S., University of Alabama
M.F.A. Creative Writing, University of North Carolina Wilmington
B.A. English, Southern Connecticut State University

Research

Literary fiction; creative nonfiction

    • Everybody Says It’s Everything, a novel (Random House, 2025)
    • Brass, a novel (Random House, 2018)
    • Domesticated Wild Things and Other Stories: University of Nebraska Press, 2013
    • 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

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