Bryan Hurt is the author of Everyone Wants to Be Ambassador to France, winner of the Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction, and the editor of Watchlist: 32 Stories by Persons of Interest, an anthology translated into Chinese, Italian, and Turkish. His next novel is under submission.
His recent work appears in McSweeney’s and Works Progress; earlier stories ran in Guernica, New England Review, Kenyon Review Online, Joyland, and TriQuarterly. His essays and criticism have appeared in Los Angeles Review of Books, Tin House, Literary Hub, and Electric Literature.
He has served as editor in chief of The Arkansas International, which won the Whiting Literary Magazine Prize during his tenure, and as Midwest fiction editor at Joyland. He teaches in the MFA program at the University of Arkansas, where he led the design of the Global Creative Writing major.
He lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
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