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Audrey Petty
Audrey Petty was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. Her stories were first featured in an issue of Callaloo devoted to emerging Black women artists. Her fiction has since been anthologized in Gumbo: An Anthology of African American Writing (edited by Marita Golden and E. Lynn Harris, from Doubleday Press) and has also appeared in such journals as Painted Bride Quarterly, African American Review, StoryQuarterly, Nimrod International Journal, The Louisville Review and The Massachusetts Review. Her poems have been featured in Crab Orchard Review and Cimarron Review.
Her essay, “Late-Night Chitlins With Momma,” first delivered at the Southern Foodways Conference at the University of Mississippi, was featured in Saveur magazine and selected for inclusion in Best Food Writing 2006. Another essay, on creative writing pedagogy, is included in Power and Identity in the Creative Writing Classroom: The Authority Project (edited by Anna Leahy, from Multilingual Matters Press, U.K.). Most recently she has written about HBO’s “The Wire” for ColorLines magazine.
Professor Petty has been awarded a residency at the Hedgebrook Colony, the Richard Soref Scholarship from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and the Tennessee Williams Fellowship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. She has also been the recipient of fellowships and grants from the Ford Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the Illinois Arts Council and the Hewlett Foundation.
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