Whitney Terrell’s novel, The Good Lieutenant (FSG) was selected as a best book of 2016 by The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, and Refinery 29. It was long-listed for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. He is also the author of The Huntsman, a New York Times notable book, and The King of Kings County. He was an embedded reporter in Iraq during 2006 and 2010 and covered the war for the Washington Post Magazine, Slate, and NPR. His nonfiction has additionally appeared in The New York Times, Harper's, and The New Republic. He is the co-host of the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast at Literary Hub and teaches at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Website: www.whitneyterrell.com

Twitter Username: @wsterrell

Publications

• The Good Lieutenant , Farrar, Straus & Giroux (June 1, 2016)
• The King of Kings County , Viking Penguin (August 1, 2005)
• The Huntsman , Viking Penguin (August 1, 2001)

Awards

• Hodder Fellowship(2008)

Employment

• Associate Professor at University of Missouri-Kansas City (August 2018 - )

Degrees

• Bachelor of Arts in English from Princeton University (May 1991)
• Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from University of Iowa (May 1994)

Genres of Interest

Fiction, Creative nonfiction, Screenwriting, Poetry