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Courtney Sender

Courtney Sender’s fiction appears in Glimmer Train, Tin House online, Esquire, American Short Fiction, Crazyhorse, and Michigan Quarterly Review. A MacDowell Colony Fellow, she holds an MFA from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars and a BA in English from Yale. She is currently working on a novel.

2015 Kenyon Review Short Fiction Prize

Jan/Feb 2016

Black Harness

By Courtney Sender

2015 Kenyon Review Short Fiction Contest Runner-up There are so many boys. There are so many boys that Dinah can barely remember all of them. She writes their names on […]