Malinda McCollum

Assistant Professor

McCollum is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and recipient of a Wallace Stegner Fellowship and Jones Lectureship from Stanford University. She is an associate professor at the College of Charleston, where she teaches in the MFA and undergraduate creative writing programs.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Malinda McCollum is the author of The Surprising Place, winner of the Juniper Prize for Fiction and a finalist for the L.D. and LaVerne Harrell Clark Fiction Prize. Her stories have appeared in The Paris Review – which awarded her the Plimpton Prize – McSweeney’s, ZYZZYVA, Epoch, and elsewhere.