About

Kerry Dolan won the Juniper Prize for Fiction for her debut story collection, Safe Places, forthcoming in Spring 2022. Dolan has been awarded fellowships from MacDowell, Ucross Foundation, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Millay Colony, and elsewhere, and has served as artist-in-residence at the Centrum Foundation. Her work has received Special Mention in the Pushcart Prize and been a finalist for the New American Fiction Prize and Tartt Fiction Award. Dolan's stories have appeared in a number of anthologies and magazines, including Quarterly West, Greensboro Review, Robert Olen Butler Prize Stories, the Tartts Anthology: Incisive Fiction from Emerging Writers, and others. She received her MFA from Cornell University, where she won the Andrews Award in fiction. Dolan has taught writing, literature, and film at Cornell, University of San Francisco, and Notre Dame de Namur University. A native of New York and former resident of San Francisco, she currently lives in Philadelphia, where she is working on a novel.