Ashley Wurzbacher

Ashley Wurzbacher’s novel, How to Care for a Human Girl, is forthcoming from Atria Books on August 8, 2023. Her debut short story collection, Happy Like This, won the 2019 John Simmons (Iowa) Short Fiction Award, selected by Carmen Maria Machado, and was a National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” honoree and a New York Times Editors’ Choice.

Ashley’s short stories have appeared in The Iowa Review, The Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, The Cincinnati Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Gettysburg Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, and other journals. She earned her MFA from Eastern Washington University and her PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Houston. Originally from Titusville, Pennsylvania, she currently lives in Birmingham, Alabama, and teaches creative writing at the University of Montevallo.