Richard Fellinger

Richard Fellinger is an award-winning author, former journalist, and a longtime college writing instructor. His novel An American Girl (Serving House Books, 2025) won the inaugural Thomas E. Kennedy Novel Award. His novel, Summer of ’85 (TouchPoint Press, 2021), was a finalist for the American Fiction Award, a distinguished favorite for the NYC Big Book Award, and winner of the Seven Hills Review Novel Excerpt Contest. He is also the author of the story collection They Hover Over Us (Snake Nation Press, 2012), winner of the Serena McDonald Kennedy Award, and the novel Made To Break Your Heart (Open Books, 2017). His fiction has also earned a Pushcart Prize nomination and won the Flash Fiction Contest at Red Cedar Review. His work has also appeared in Newsweek, Epiphany, Potomac Review, and PANK, among others. He lives with his wife in Harrisburg, Pa.