Abby Geni

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Abby Geni is the author of The Lightkeepers, winner of the 2016 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award for Fiction and the inaugural Chicago Review of Books Awards for Best Fiction, and The Last Animal (2013), an Indies Introduce Debut Writers Selection and a finalist for the Orion Book Award.  Her short stories have won first place in the Glimmer Train Fiction Open and the Chautauqua Contest and have appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies.  Geni is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a recipient of the Iowa Fellowship.

Prize anthology mentions

Best American Short Stories 2010*

Best American Short Stories 2013*

Pushcart (CNF) 2014*

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