Xhenet Aliu

Xhenet Aliu is an award-winning Albanian-American author raised in Waterbury, Connecticut, with a father who emigrated from Strugë, Albania, and a mother of Lithuanian descent. She is the author of the novels Brass, which won the Townsend Prize for Fiction and the Georgia Author of the Year First Novel Prize, and Everybody Says It’s Everything, as well as the debut fiction collection Domesticated Wild Things, winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction. A professor of creative writing at UNC Greensboro, her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, and other publications.