Xhenet Aliu’s most recent novel, Everybody Says It’s Everything (Random House), was published in March 2025. Her previous novel, Brass (Random House), was awarded the biennial Townsend Prize in 2020, the 2018 Georgia Author of the Year First Novel Prize, was a Barnes & Noble “Discover Great New Writers” selection and was long-listed for the 2018 Center for Fiction First Book Prize. Numerous media outlets, including Entertainment Weekly, The San Francisco Chronicle, Real Simple, and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, named Brass a 2018 best book of the year. Previously, her debut story collection, Domesticated Wild Things, and Other Stories won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction.
She teaches Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina Greensboro.
Books in order of publication:
Domesticated Wild Things and Other Stories – 2013
Brass – 2018
Everybody Says It’s Everything -2025
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