STEVEN WINGATE

My debut short story collection Wifeshopping won the Bakeless Prize in Fiction from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and was published by Houghton Mifflin in July 2008. My fiction, essays, poetry, cross-genre work, and criticism have appeared in Witness, Gulf Coast, Slice, Mississippi Review, Colorado Review, The Pinch, Brand (UK), Literaturen Vestnik (Bulgaria) and elsewhere. Wifeshopping will be translated into Bulgarian and published in 2012 by Ciela Books.

I have taught creative writing at the College of the Holy Cross, the University of Colorado at Boulder, and South Dakota State University, where I am now an assistant professor. I am also a contributing editor at Fiction Writers Review where I write an essay series on the fiction craft called "Quotes and Notes" (see the link at right for recent entries and archive).

Though a native of New Jersey, I've spent much of my life in Colorado and generally feel more at home west of the Mississippi River. I'm married with two sons, age six and four, and they already run faster than I do.