Professor Angela Winsor primarily teaches fiction writing courses, as well as mixed-genre and composition courses that center writing as a process and emphasize writing in community. Before earning her MFA and beginning her work in academia, Angela worked as a documentary, commercial and lifestyle photographer. She joined the English faculty at Hope College in 2024.

Areas of Expertise

Angela specializes in literary fiction. Her writing has been featured in several literary journals and has been distinguished in the Best American Short Story series. Her research and writing interests include the relationships between place and identity, contemporary art and contemporary American literature. She has served as an editor for The Greensboro Review and Southern Humanities Review. 

Education

• MFA, creative writing (fiction), University of North Carolina Greensboro, 2022
• M.A., English, Auburn University, 2020
• B.A., communication studies, Florida Atlantic University, 2018

Selected Publications and presentations

• “Some People Talk to God,” fiction in Third Coast, 2024
• “The Crash,” essay in Pithead Chapel, 2023
• “Creative Writing as Community Building in First-Year Writing and Literature Classrooms,” presentation at University of North Carolina Greensboro, 2023
• “Widest Possible Aperture,” fiction in Colorado Review, 2022
• “Sumidero,” poetry in NELLE, 2021 
• “For an Osage Orange Tree (and the names she’ll answer to),” poetry in Lascaux Review, 2021
• “How to Wake a Hen,” fiction in Saw Palm: Florida Literature and Art, 2020

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Outside the College

Beyond writing, reading, and teaching, Angela loves being the cool aunt to five nieces and nephews.