Professor, English
Erin Flanagan's most recent novel, Blackout (Thomas & Mercer), was a June 2022 Amazon First Reads pick. She is the author of the novel Deer Season, winner of the 2022 Edgar Award for Best First Novel by an American Author, as well as two short story collections: The Usual Mistakes and It's Not Going to Kill You, and Other Stories. She joined the faculty at Wright State in 2005.
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About Erin Flanagan
Erin Flanagan's most recent novel, Blackout (Thomas & Mercer), was a June 2022 Amazon First Reads pick. She is the author of the novel Deer Season, winner of the 2022 Edgar Award for Best First Novel by an American Author, as well as two short story collections: The Usual Mistakes and It's Not Going to Kill You, and Other Stories. She joined the faculty at Wright State in 2005.
| Present | Professor, Wright State University ‐ School of Humanities and Cultural Studies | |
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Honors and Awards
- Amazon First Reads selection, Blackout, June 2022
- Macavity Award, finalist, Deer Season for Best First Mystery Novel, 2022
- Midwest Book Award, finalist, Deer Season for Fiction - Literary/Contemporary/Historical, 2022
- Edgar Award, winner, Deer Season for Best First Novel by an American Author, 2022
- Pushcart nomination “Hold Steady,” by North American Review
- Assisted Living: Stories, finalist, Moon City Press, 2020
- Assisted Living: Stories, semi-finalist for yearly reading period, Sundress Publications, 2020
- Residency, Sundress Academy for the Arts, August 24-30, 2020
- Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award ($5000), 2019
- Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award ($5000), 2016
- “Dog People,” included in Top 100 Distinguished stories 2011, Best American Short Stories 2011
- Finalist, “Feather the Nest,” The Laurel Review Midwest Short Fiction Contest
- Finalist, “The Wrong Man,” The Missouri Review’s 2010 Editor’s Prize
- Residency, Ucross Foundation, July – August 2007
- Residency, The Corporation of Yaddo, March – April 2005
- Franklin and Orinda Johnson Fellowship, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Graduate Fellowship, 2004 – 2005
- Residency, The MacDowell Colony, February – March 2004
- Finalist, Fiction Fellowship to the Wisconsin Creative Writing Institute, 2003 – 2004
- The Vreeland Award in Creative Writing, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2003
- Frank and Marie Wheeler Fellowship, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Graduate Fellowship, 2003 – 2004
- Residency Full Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, May, 2002
- Tennessee Williams Scholarship in Fiction, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, 2001
- The Reader Short Fiction Contest, First Place, July 2001
- Mari Sandoz Prairie Schooner Short Story Award, April 2001
- Work-study Scholarship in Fiction, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, 2000
- Partial Non-resident Tuition Fellowship, 1998 – 1999