Darlin' Neal

Assistant Professor

mdneal@mail.ucf.edu
Office Hours: M 11-2:20; W 12-2:20
Campus Location: CNH304E

Education

Ph.D. in Creative Writing/20th Century British and American Literature from University of Southern Mississippi
M.F.A. in Creative Writing/Fiction from University of Arizona
M.A. in English/Creative Writing from New Mexico State University

Darlin' Neal is a native Mississippian who spent her childhood traveling New Mexico. In the last two years, her fiction and nonfiction have been nominated six times for the Pushcart Prize, and appears in Per Contra, The Southern Review, Shenandoah, Puerto del Sol and dozens of other magazines. Her nonfiction piece, "The House in Simi Valley," which first appeared in storySouth, has been selected for the forthcoming anthology, Online Writing: The Best of The First Ten Years.

Research Interests

Literary Fiction
Literary Nonfiction
Memoir
Poetry and Flash Fiction
Native American Literature
Writing of the Southwest
Southern Writers
Eudora Welty

Awards

Finalist, 2008 New Rivers Press MVP Award for short story collection, Rattlesnakes and the Moon

Finalist, 2007 BkMk Press GS Sharat Chandra Prize for short story collection, Rattlesnakes and the MoonLiterary Arts Fellowship, Mississippi Arts Commission

Henfield Foundation Transatlantic Review Award

Joan Johnson Award for Fiction, University of Southern Mississippi

New Mexico State University's Frank Waters Fiction Fellowship