Byrn Chancellor's short story collection When Are You Coming Home? won the 2014 Praire Schooner Book Prize, and her short fiction has appeared in Gulf Coast, Blackbird, Colorado Review, Crazy Horse, Phoebe, and elsewhere. Other honors include the 2014 Poets & Writers Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award in fiction, and literary fellowships from the Alabama State Council on the Arts and the Arizona Commission on the Arts. She has a MFA in fiction from Vanderbilt University and teaches at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.