Born: 1972, United States
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Country most active: United States
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Courtney Angela Brkic is the author of Stillness: and Other Stories and The Stone Fields, both from Farrar, Straus & Giroux. She received an MFA from New York University, and has worked as a creative writing teacher, a translator and as a forensic archeologist in Bosnia-Herzegovina. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship, a Whiting Writers Award and was nominated by The Index on Censorship for a Freedom of Expression Award. Her work has appeared in Zoetrope, Harpers & Queen UK, The New York Times, The Washington Post Magazine, National Geographic, Dissent and The Alaska Quarterly Review, among others. She teaches fiction at George Mason University.