Becky Hagenston

Becky Hagenston grew up in Maryland and received her MA from New Mexico State University and her MFA from the University of Arizona. She is the author of three award-winning story collections: Scavengers (winner of the Permafrost Prize), Strange Weather (winner of the Spokane Prize) and A Gram of Mars (winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize). Her stories have appeared in numerous journals, including the Oxford American, Shenandoah, Crazyhorse, the Gettysburg Review, the Southern Review, and the New England Review. She has received two O. Henry Awards (in 1996 and 2015) and scholarships from Bread Loaf, Sewanee, and the Summer Literary Seminars in St. Petersburg, Russia, as well as a residency at Yaddo. She is a professor of English at Mississippi State University.