Brenda C. Wilson holds an MFA from Queens University in Charlotte and degrees from the University of Alabama and Louisiana State University. Her short stories have appeared in Maryland Review, Pride Magazine, and Wanderlust Travel Journal. She was a finalist in the Gertrude Johnson Williams Literary Contest, the Reynolds Price Short Fiction Contest, and the winner of the Jacobs/Jones Literary Prize (2024, 2026). Her winning story, Slaughter, is in the latest release of the North Carolina Literary Review. https://uncpress.org/9781469699387/north-carolina-literary-review/
Her debut novel, *A Cakewalk to Memphis*, will be released in September 2026 from Redhawk Publications. To pre-order, follow this link: https://redhawkpublications.com