Whitney Collins is the recipient of a 2020 Pushcart Prize, a 2020 Pushcart Special Mention, a Best American Short Stories 2022 Distinguished Story, and winner of the 2020 American Short(er) Fiction Prize and the 2021 ProForma Contest. Her stories have appeared in The Best Small Fictions 2022, Fractured Lit Anthology 3, and Tiny Nightmares: Very Short Tales of Horror, as well as AGNI, American Short Fiction, Gulf Coast, and the Idaho Review, among others. Whitney’s previous story collection, Big Bad, won the 2019 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, the 2022 Gold Medal IPPY Award for Short Story/Fiction, and the 2021 Bronze Medal INDIES Award for Short Stories. Whitney received her MFA from Spalding University’s Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing.