Becky Hagenston

Becky Hagenston is the author of four story collections, most recently The Age of Discovery and Other Stories, winner of The Journal’s Non/Fiction Prize and the 2022 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters award in fiction. Her stories have appeared in Ploughshares, The Southern Review, The Oxford American, and many other journals, and have been chosen for a Pushcart Prize and twice for an O. Henry Award. She’s a professor of English at Mississippi State University.