K W OxnardK.W. Oxnard's short story "Belle of the Ball" won first prize in the 2024 Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival Fiction Contest, and her work has been a finalist for the Chester B. Himes Memorial Short Fiction Contest; the North Carolina Writers' Network Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize; the Conium Review Innovative Short Fiction Contest; and the CRAFT Flash Fiction Contest, among many others. Her fiction appears in Story, Mom Egg Review, Columbia Journal Online and Tahoma Literary Review and other literary magazines. A graduate of New York University's Masters program in fiction writing and a recipient of multiple residencies at Hambidge Center and Virginia Center for Creative Arts, she also won Honorable Mention in the 2021 december Magazine Curt Johnson Prose Awards in Fiction. Oxnard's work also appears in anthologies, including Draw Down the Moon from Propertius Press; and Desire: Women Write About Wanting from Seal Press. After many years teaching writing at the college level, in 2004 Oxnard moved back to her hometown of Savannah, Georgia, where she lives and writes surrounded by Spanish moss and childhood memories. Read More Read Less