Colin Winnette

Colin Winnette is an American novelist,[1] short story writer, and poet. In 2019 he was is the author of six works of fiction.

Colin Winnette
Winnette at the 2015 Texas Book Festival
Born12/1984
OccupationAuthor
NationalityAmerican
Website
colinwinnette.net

Early life and education

Winnette grew up in Denton, Texas. He attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he earned an MFA in writing in 2012.[2]

Career

Winnette's first novel, Revelation, was published in 2011 by Mutable Sound Press while he was a graduate student. He has written four more works of fiction: Animal Collection (Spork Press 2012), Fondly (Atticus Books 2013), Coyote (Les Figues Press 2015),[3][4] and Haints Stay (Two Dollar Radio 2015).

Winnette's short stories, poetry, reviews and other compositions have appeared in various publications, including McSweeney's, The American Reader, The Believer, Gulf Coast Magazine, and 9th Letter. He was the winner of Les Figues Press's 2013 NOS Book Contest, for his novel Coyote. He also won the 2012 Sonora Review's Short Short Fiction Award and Heavy Feather Review's Featured Chapbook Contest, and he was a finalist for the Cleveland State University Poetry Center's First Book Award and Gulf Coast Magazine's Donald Barthelme Prize.[5][6]

His novels have been translated into Italian and French.

References
  1. "Coyote by Colin Winnette". Portland Book Review, by Jon Sanetel on February 26, 2015
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-07-27. Retrieved 2014-07-01.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. "REVIEW: Coyote by Colin Winnette". Connor Ferguson, Electric Literature January 5, 2015
  4. "Coyote". Publishers Weekly
  5. "2012 Wabash Prize for Fiction results!". Sycamore Review
  6. "The Barthelmew Prize for Short Prose". Gulf Coast Magazine.
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