ROSA SHAND

Rosa Shand’s novel, The Gravity of Sunlight (2000), won the Jesse Jones Award for Best Fiction and the Stephen Turner Award for Best First Fiction as well as being named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. A collection of short stories, New Southern Harmonies (with three other writers), won the Independent Publishers’ Award for Best Fiction Collection of 1999. She has published over thirty stories in such journals as The Southern Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Shenandoah, Southwest Review, The Massachusetts Review, and Chelsea. One story won the Katherine Ann Porter Award; six have won the South Carolina Fiction Project; others have been winners of the PEN Syndicated Fiction Project and aired on NPR and one was selected for reading and recording at the Library of Congress. She has held an individual artist’s grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (2000-2001) and been named the South Carolina Fellow in Fiction (1994-1995), the Scherman Fellow at the MacDowell Colony, a Dakin Fellow at Sewanee and has been elected to membership in the Texas Institute of Letters. She was formerly the Larrabee Professor of English at Converse College and is currently Visiting Writer at Wofford College.