Darlin’ Neal

Darlin’ Neal is author of the story collections Elegant Punk (Press 53, 2012) and Rattlesnakes & The Moon (Press 53, 2010). She is the 2011 winner of DH Lawrence Fellowship from the Taos Summer Writers Conference, their highest honor. Her short stories, essays, poems, and reviews have appeared in numerous journals, magazines, and anthologies, including The Southern Review, Shenandoah, Eleven Eleven, The Mississippi Review, Puerto del Sol, and Best Of The Web. Neal is a Mississippi Arts Commission Literary Arts, Henfield Prize, and Frank Waters Fiction Fellowship recipient. She is an assistant professor of creative writing in the University of Central Florida’s MFA program. She offers short story mentorships through Cutthroat, a Journal of the Arts Mentor Program, http://www.cutthroatmag.com/art_archives.html.