Amber Wheeler Bacon

Amber Wheeler Bacon is a writer and teacher whose work has appeared in Crazyhorse, Ecotone, Epiphany, Five Points, Prairie Schooner and Witness. You can find her writing online at Ploughshares and CRAFT. She received the 2018 Breakout Writers Prize from The Author’s Guild, a 2021 Bread Loaf scholarship, the 2022 Lit/South Award for flash fiction, and a 2023 Prairie Schooner Award. She was a finalist for the 2023 Chautauqua Janus Prize, nominated by Ecotone Magazine. Amber has an MFA from Bennington College and teaches writing at Coastal Carolina University. Her story collection, We Were Vessels, is forthcoming from YesYes Books.