Biography
Leigh Allison Wilson was born in 1957 in East Tennessee. She attended and graduated from Williams College with a degree in English. Furthering her literary studies, she enrolled at the University of Virginia 's Graduate Program under a Henry Hoyns Fellowship. She received an MFA from the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop where she won the James Michener Fellowship. Her first collection of stories, From the Bottom Up (1983), was the winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for short fiction, and was published by the University of Georgia Press in 1983. Her second book, Wind, was published in 1989 and nominated for a Pulitzer Prize that year. Her work has appeared in Harper's, Grand Street, and the Southern Review. Wilson currently lives in Oswego, New York, where she teaches at the State University of New York.
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