Paula Whyman

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Paula Whyman is the author of YOU MAY SEE A STRANGER, a linked story collection that won praise from The New Yorker and a starred review in Publishers Weekly. She received the 2017 Towson Prize for Literature, and she was selected for “Best of 2016” lists including Chicago Review of Books and the first-ever Poets & Writers Magazine “5 Over 50” list. She served as a judge for the 2017 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. Paula has taught in writers-in-schools programs through the Pen/Faulkner Foundation in Washington, DC, and The Hudson Review in Harlem and the Bronx, New York. She is a fellow of The MacDowell Colony and Yaddo, and Vice President of the MacDowell Colony Fellows Executive Committee. She is founding editor of the online journal, Scoundrel Time. 

Prize anthology mentions

Pushcart (Fiction) 2014*

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