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Visiting Writers Series - Chanelle Benz

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WT Young Auditorium

Chanelle Benz: Nov. 14, 2019, 7:00 pm, W.T. Young Auditorium

Chanelle Benz has published short stories in Guernica, Granta.com, Electric Literature, The American Reader, Fence, and The Cupboard, and is the recipient of an O. Henry Prize. Her story collection, The Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead, was named a Best Book of 2017 by The San Francisco Chronicle and one of Electric Literature’s 15 Best Short Story Collections of 2017. It won the Sergio Troncoso Award for Best First Fiction and the Philosophical Society of Texas Book Award for fiction. Her novel, The Gone Dead, was published by Ecco Press in June 2019. She currently lives in Memphis where she teaches at Rhodes College.