Pinckney Benedict

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Pinckney Benedict has published three collections of short fiction, Town Smokes, The Wrecking Yard, and Miracle Boy; and a novel, Dogs of God. His stories have appeared in, among other magazines and anthologies, Esquire, Zoetrope: All-Story, StoryQuarterly, Ontario Review, the O. Henry Award Stories (twice), the Pushcart Prize series (three times, most recently in the 2008 volume), the New Stories from the South series, and The Oxford Book of American Short Stories. He is the recipient, among other prizes, of a Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Literary Fellowship from the West Virginia Commission on the Arts, a Fiction Fellowship from the Illinois Arts Council, a Michener Fellowship from the Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa, the Chicago Tribune’s Nelson Algren Award, and Britain’s Steinbeck Award.