Maddie Norris, author of The Wet Wound: An Elegy in Essays (UGA Press, 2024), is a writer from the Carolinas. She earned her MFA at the University of Arizona and, before that, was the Thomas Wolfe Scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She later returned to Chapel Hill as the Kenan Visiting Writer. A finalist for the 2026 DAG Prize for Literature, her work has won the Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction from Ninth Letter and been named Notable in Best American Essays 2020 and 2022. She is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Davidson College.
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