Linda Heuring
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Linda H. Heuring is an award-winning writer of character-driven short stories. She has given voice to teenage boys, retired schoolteachers, widows, New York artists, murderesses, men of size, and other diverse characters, taking the reader into their worlds with sensitivity and humor.
Her work has appeared in the 2012 Fish Anthology (Ireland), Rosebud, Concho River Review, Alabama Literary Review, Kestrel, Southern Women's Review, Clover, and The Dos Passos Review, among other publications. She was awarded the Fish International Short Story Prize in 2012 (judge David Mitchell), third place in the Elizabeth Simpson Smith Short Story Prize in 2011 (judge Daniel Handler), first place in the Union County Writer's Club Fiction Competition in 2011 and 2009, and second place in the Writer's Workshop Fiction Contest in 2010. Her short stories have been nominated for the Best of the Web and the Pushcart Prize.
She earned a bachelor's degree in English composition from DePauw University and has worked as a journalist and newspaper editor and held global positions in corporate communications and marketing. She lives outside Chicago with her husband, David Whatley.
Website: http://www.lindaheuring.com
Winning Entry: Roommates
Contest Won: Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest 2014, Honorable Mention
