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Terena Elizabeth Bell is a fiction writer. Her debut short story collection, Tell Me What You See (Whiskey Tit, 2022), was named one of the “best books of the century” by New York Society Library. Her writing has appeared in more than 100 publications. A Kentucky native, she lives in New York.
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Terena Elizabeth Bell is a fiction writer. Her debut short story collection, Tell Me What You See (Whiskey Tit, 2022), was named one of the “best books of the century (so far)” by New York Society Library and a Ms Magazine must-read. The title story was a New York Foundation for the Arts grant winner and another from the collection, “Privacy Station,” has been optioned to become a feature film. Fiction has won grants from the Kentucky Foundation for Women and Kentucky Center for the Arts, as well as been shortlisted for the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival international writing prize. Short stories, poetry, and journalism work have appeared in more than 100 publications across the US, the UK, Canada, Ireland, Germany, and Spain, including The Atlantic, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, MysteryTribune, Playboy, and The Guardian.
Originally from Sinking Fork, Kentucky, she lives in New York City.
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Terena Elizabeth Bell is a fiction writer. Her debut short story collection, Tell Me What You See (Whiskey Tit, 2022), was named one of the “best books of the century (so far)” by New York Society Library and a Ms Magazine must-read. The title story was a New York Foundation for the Arts grant winner and another from the collection, “Privacy Station,” has been optioned to become a feature film. Short stories, poetry, and journalism work have appeared in The Atlantic, Playboy, MysteryTribune, Santa Monica Review, Saturday Evening Post, and more than 100 similar publications throughout the US, the UK, Canada, Ireland, Germany, and Spain. Other fiction has won grants from the Kentucky Foundation for Women and Kentucky Center for the Arts.
Bell is a 2021 NYFA City Artists Corps winner, a 2018 Arlene Eisenberg Award winner, a 2018 Azbee Award of Excellence winner, and Centre College’s 2014 Distinguished Young Alumna of the Year. She has taught creative writing independently and through the New York Society Library, Woodlawn Children’s Home, Bowling Green State University, Rosemont College, and Kentucky’s Governor’s School for the Arts.
From 2005 to 2015, Bell served as CEO of an international translation company and, in 2012, was appointed to President Barack Obama’s White House Business Council by US Representative John Yarmuth. She holds a BA in English from Centre College and an MA in French from the University of Louisville. Originally from Sinking Fork, Kentucky, she lives in Manhattan, where her landlord once was Philip Roth.