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.
Their writing has been featured in The New York Times, Washington Post, The Sun Magazine, Chicago Tribune, Harper’s Bazaar, VICE, and other publications. Her fiction has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best Small Fictions, and Best Microfiction, as well as featured in several publications’ best-of anthologies.
Virgie has served as a guest judge for Black Lawrence Press’ , as well as an editor at SmokeLong Quarterly. She has taught creative writing at American University’s summer program for high school students and the Downtown Writers Center.
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