Danielle Evans

Danielle Evans is the author of Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self, winner of the 2011 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize.

Her stories have appeared in The Paris Review, A Public Space, The Best American Short Stories 2008, and other literary publications. Her story “Someone Ought to Tell Her There’s Nowhere to Go” appears in The Best American Short Stories 2010.

Evans received an MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers Workshop, was a fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, and is now teaching at American University in Washington, D.C.