Whitney Collins

Whitney Collins is the author of the short story collection, BIG BAD (Sarabande Books), which won the 2019 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction. She received a 2020 Pushcart Prize, a 2020 Pushcart Special Mention, and won the 2020 American Short(er) Fiction Prize. Whitney’s fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in AGNI, American Short Fiction, Gulf Coast, Slice, The Greensboro Review, The Pinch, Ninth Letter, Grist, and Catapult’s TINY NIGHTMARES anthology, among others. Previously, Whitney was a contributing editor for The Weeklings, a book reviewer for Barnes & Noble, and an editorial board member of The Big Jewel. Her nonfiction has appeared on various sites, including McSweeney’s Internet Tendency and Salon. She received her MFA from Spalding University’s School of Creative and Professional Writing.