Ashley Wurzbacher

Ashley Wurzbacher

Ashley Wurzbacher's debut short story collection, Happy Like This, won the Iowa Short Fiction Award, was a National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" honoree, and was a New York Times Editors’ Choice in October 2019. Her stories have appeared in The Iowa ReviewKenyon Review OnlinePrairie Schooner, The Cincinnati ReviewColorado ReviewGettysburg Review, and elsewhere. She earned her MFA from Eastern Washington University and her PhD from the University of Houston. She teaches at the University of Montevallo in Alabama.

An interview with Fiction Writers Review. 

Check out Ashley's story in Kenyon Review

Ashley as a guest on the Otherppl podcast!