K. W. Oxnard

K. W. Oxnard’s fiction has appeared in many literary journals such as Story, TatlinsTower.com, GlobalGraffMag and Reed, and she is a regular op-ed columnist for the Savannah Morning News. A twelve-time recipient of fellowships to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, she has also been a finalist in the following contests: the 2015 Southwest Review’s David Nathan Meyerson Prize for Fiction; the 2014 River Styx Schlafly Beer Micro-Brew Micro-Fiction contest; and the 2002 Sarabande Books Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction. She was also was a semifinalist for the 2015 Lascaux Review Prize in Flash Fiction and the 2002 Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Prize in the Novel.

Oxnard's writing has appeared in several anthologies, including the essay “Babyquest” in DESIRE: Women Write About Wanting from Seal Press; a short story, “Latitudes,” in NOT WHAT I EXPECTED: The Unpredictable Road from Womanhood to Motherhood from Paycock Press; and the op-ed “Livin’ Like Larry” in TEXTING: Clear Communications for Various Contexts from Armstrong Atlantic State University.

A graduate of New York University’s MFA Program in Fiction Writing, Oxnard has taught writing at NYU, Harvard Extension School, Radcliffe Seminars, University of Southern Maine and Armstrong Atlantic State University.

In 2004 she moved back to her hometown, Savannah, Georgia--land of Flannery O’Connor, Johnny Mercer and her ancestors, full of ghosts both benevolent and literary--where she lives and writes surrounded by Spanish moss and memories.