Anthony Otten

Fiction Writer

Covington, KY

Kentucky US

Website:

www.anthonyotten.com/

Twitter/X:

@AnthonyOtten

Author's Bio

Anthony (Tony) Otten lives in Covington, Kentucky, just south of the Ohio River. He is an MFA candidate in fiction at the Warren Wilson Program for Writers. His short stories have won first prize in contests held by Still and Able Muse. His fiction has also appeared in The Forge Literary Magazine, Jabberwock Review, Grasslimb, and Valparaiso Fiction Review. Find him @anthonyotten_ on Instagram, @AnthonyOtten on Twitter/X, and at anthonyotten.com.

Education:

Warren Wilson College MFA

Publications & Prizes

Journals:

Forge Literary Magazine

Front Porch Review

Grasslimb: A Journal of Art and Literature

Hawai'i Pacific Review

Jabberwock Review

Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel

Rusty Nail

Short Story America

Still

Valparaiso Fiction Review

Wind Magazine

Prizes won:

Delta Epsilon Sigma Journal Fiction Prize, "The Truth About Hunger" - 2013
Able Muse Write Prize for Fiction, "The Vigil" - 2018
Still: The Journal Fiction Contest First Prize, "Rivertown" - 2019

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors:

James Baldwin, William Faulkner, Ernest J. Gaines, Ernest Hemingway, Yiyun Li, Hilary Mantel, Cormac McCarthy, Carson McCullers, Toni Morrison, Flannery O'Connor

What I'm reading now:

Please Don't Come Back From The Moon by Dean Bakopoulos

More Information

Fluent in:

English

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Last update: Feb 26, 2024