Brandon Ahmad Haffner

Brandon Ahmad Haffner earned his MFA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and his BA from Indiana University in Bloomington. His stories appear or are forthcoming in the Cincinnati Review, Sewanee Review, Harvard Review, New Orleans Review, Carolina Quarterly, and other journals. He has received artist-in-residence fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, VCCA France, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, and the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts & Sciences. He has also received fellowships from International Literary Seminars in Tbilisi and Nairobi and from the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. From 2019 to 2023, he chaired the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature. He edits fiction for Variant Lit and contributes to The Richmonder. Currently he is an associate professor of creative writing at Longwood University and lives in Richmond, Virginia.