Wendy Rawlings

Wendy Rawlings (born 1967) is an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and critic. She is a professor of English at the University of Alabama.

Early life and education

Born in Washington D.C. in 1967, Rawlings grew up in Bayville, New York. In 2007, Rawlings won the Michigan Literary Fiction Award for her novel, The Agnostics, which was published that year by The University of Michigan Press. Novelist Sigrid Nunez called the novel "a poignant, exquisitely focused book." Her third book, Time for Bed, was published by Louisiana State University Press in 2019.

In addition, Rawlings has published short fiction, essays, and criticism in a variety of journals, including AGNI, The Atlantic, Cincinnati Review, Crab Orchard Review, Fourth Genre, Massachusetts Review, The Normal School, Passages North, The Southern Review, Sonora Review, and Tin House.

She has taught creative writing and literature at The University of Alabama since 2000.

Personal life Rawlings lives in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Published books The Agnostics. A novel. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007 Come Back Irish. Short stories. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University Press, 2001 Time for Bed. Stories. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2019

Awards Michigan Literary Fiction Award, 2007 Pushcart Prize, 2016 The Ohio State University Prize in Short Fiction, 2000