About Virgie
Virgie Townsend (she/they) is the author of the fiction chapbook Because We Were Christian Girls, which won the 2022 Central New York Book Award for Fiction and was shortlisted for the 2021 Newfound Prose Prize, the Cupboard Pamphlet’s 2020 Annual Contest, and Black Lawrence Press’ Fall 2019 Black River Chapbook Competition.
Her fiction and nonfiction have been featured in The New York Times, Washington Post, The Sun Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, VICE, and other national publications. In addition to chapbook awards, her short stories have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best Small Fictions, and Best Microfiction, as well as featured in several publications’ best-of anthologies.
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