Alabama Authors Directory

The Alabama Authors Directory is a resource for readers, editors, publishers, educators, librarians, program planners, and the simply curious to discover and learn more about writers with connections to the state.

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Ashley Wurzbacher

Lives in: Birmingham, AL

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  • Email: a.wurzbacher@gmail.com

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About Ashley Wurzbacher

Genres: Fiction

Available for: Readings, In Person, Remote

Bio: Ashley Wurzbacher is the author of the novel, How to Care for a Human Girl and the short story collection, Happy Like This, which won the John Simmons Short Fiction Award and was a New York Times Editors’ Choice. In 2019 she was named one of the National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35” honorees. Ashley’s short stories have appeared in The Iowa Review, The Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, The Cincinnati Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Gettysburg Review, and other journals. She earned her MFA …Read More from Eastern Washington University and her PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Houston. Originally from Titusville, Pennsylvania, she currently lives in Birmingham and teaches creative writing at the University of Montevallo.

Works:

How to Care for a Human Girl (Atria, 2023)
Happy Like This (University of Iowa Press, 2019)

Awards: Alabama State Council on the Arts Fellowship (2022)
National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” (2019)
New York Times Editor’s Choice (Happy Like This)
Iowa Short Fiction Award (Happy Like This)
Fellowships and residencies from Yaddo, Willapa Bay AiR, …Read More I-Park, and the Writer’s Colony at Dairy Hollow

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