Gaynell Gavin is the author of Attorney-at-Large: A Novella and Intersections, a poetry chapbook, both published by Main Street Rag Publishing. Her work has appeared in many literary journals, including The Bellevue Literary Review, Big Muddy: A Journal of the Mississippi River Valley, Fourth Genre, North Dakota Quarterly, and Prairie Schooner. Gavin was a finalist in the 2012 Solstice Nonfiction Contest and for the 2011 Zone 3 Press Creative Nonfiction Book Award as well as the recipient of a 2009 Notable Essay citation in Best American Essays. Blue Hour," her short story, was a 2013 Seán Ó Faoláin International Short Story Competition runner-up and appears in Southword Journal.
Gavin grew up in the Mississippi River communities of Alton and Godfrey in southwestern Illinois. She is a graduate of Principia College and Washington University Law. She received her graduate English education from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale and University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Gavin practiced law in Colorado, first in Colorado Springs and then in the Denver area. Currently, she is a faculty member at Claflin University where she teaches English and Politics and Justice Studies. She lives with her family in Columbia, South Carolina.
Send questions, comments and corrections to info@creativewritingmfa.info.
Disclaimer: No endorsement of these ratings should be implied by the writers and writing programs listed on this site, or by the editors and publishers of Best American Short Stories, Best American Essays, Best American Poetry, The O. Henry Prize Stories and The Pushcart Prize Anthology.