Rate My Professor Bryn Chancellor

Bryn Chancellor is an Associate Professor of English in the Department of English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, a position she has held since 2019, following her service as Assistant Professor there from 2015 to 2019. Previously, she was Assistant Professor of English at the University of Montevallo from 2009 to 2015, where she received tenure and promotion in April 2015. Chancellor earned her M.F.A. in Creative Writing (Fiction) from Vanderbilt University, M.A. in English Literature from Arizona State University, and B.A. in English from Northern Arizona University. Her research specializations encompass fiction writing, creative nonfiction writing, contemporary American fiction and nonfiction, psychogeography/the writer as walker, and comix/graphic narratives.

Chancellor is the author of the novel Sycamore (Harper/HarperCollins, 2017), recognized as a Southwest Book of the Year, an Indie Next and LibraryReads pick, an Amazon Editors’ Best Book of 2017, and among Bustle’s Best Debuts of 2017. Her story collection When Are You Coming Home? Stories (University of Nebraska Press, 2015) won the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize. Additional publications include short fiction such as “Safety First” in Cimarron Review (Fall 2022-Winter 2023), “Radio Sky” in Ecotone 33 (Spring/Summer 2023), “Remnants” in The Southern Review 58.4 (Autumn 2022), and creative nonfiction like “String, Too Short” in Brevity (2019) and “Arterial” in swamp pink (Fall 2020). She has garnered fellowships from the North Carolina Arts Council, Alabama State Council on the Arts, Arizona Commission on the Arts, and the Poets and Writers Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award, along with residencies at Jentel Artist Residency and Hambidge Center. Teaching accolades include English Graduate Student Association Graduate Professor of the Year in 2022 and 2025, UNC Charlotte Accessibility Excellence Award in 2017, and University of Montevallo Honors Faculty Award in 2015. In 2025-2026, she is the inaugural Writer-in-Residence in Fiction at Charlotte Center for Literary Arts. She is currently developing a novel and a linked short story collection.