Published Works
NOVEL
The Wonder That Was Ours (Dzanc Books, 2018)
ShoRT STORIES
“Into the Weeds,” Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine (forthcoming)
“Real,” Pinch (forthcoming)
“The End of the Line,” Mississippi Review (forthcoming).
“Caesura,” Reed Magazine, 157 (Spring 2024).
“A Small Mercy,” Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, November / December 2023
“Blood Covenant,” Post Road, 40 (2023)
“Best Served Cold,” Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, January / February 2022
“Foreclosure,” 100 Word Story, December 12, 2021 (online)
“Twilight Years,” Flash Fiction Magazine, January 29, 2022.
“Armistice Day,” Pleiades, 41.2 (Fall 2021)
“Compound Fractures,” The Masters Review, July 6, 2020 (online)
“Familiarity Breeds Forgiveness,” Red Rock Review 44 (Spring 2020)
“Inflammation,” Literary Orphans, 40 (January 2020)
“Mr. Chips and the Mango-Tango Mother Ship,” in Portal 10: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction (Lascaux Books, 2019)
“Going Home,” Notre Dame Review 47 (Winter/Spring 2019) (print)
“Cash Redemption,” Stonecoast Review 10 (Winter 2019)
“Predictably (The Heart of the Matter),” Monkeybicycle, Feb 1, 2019 (online)
“Our Exalted Terrestrial Kingdom,” Fiction International 51 (print)
“Dying Days,” Hot Metal Bridge, Spring 2019 (online)
“Siri in Therapy,” Queen Mob’s Teahouse, December 5, 2018 (online)
“A Tenderness Rarely Seen,” Jellyfish Review, February 2018 (online)
“Through the Cracks, Into the Sky,” Madison Review (Fall 2017) (online)
“Alt Gratitude List: What Might Have Been If I’d Never Left Chicago,” Contrary (Fall 2017) (online)
“Mr. Chips and the Mango-Tango Mother Ship,” Lascaux Review, Reprint Issue (online)
“A Perfectly Good Husband,” Crack the Spine, 216 (May 24, 2017) (online)
“Irish Lessons,” Beloit Fiction Journal, 30 (Spring 2017) (print)
“Reduced Circumstances,” Alaska Quarterly Review 33:4 (Winter 2017) (print)
“Mr. Chips and the Mango-Tango Mother Ship,” 34th Parallel Magazine, 36 (Fall 2016) (print)
“Love in the Age of Global Warming,” Defenestration, December 2016 (online)
“Marrying Money,” Storyteller, 2016 Issue (print)
“Thursday Night in a Transvestite Truckers’ Bar in Michigan,” Albuquerque Arts, 2010 (online)
Poetry
“Fifteen,” Raw Lit, 4 (2024) *reprint
“Before the First Incision,” Water~Stone Review 23 (2020).
“Salted Earth,” Cagibi Issue 6, April 2019 (online)
“Last Journey to the Sea,” Galway Review,” March 2018 (online)
“A Camaraderie Only Cold Can Produce,” Storyteller 2016 (print)
“A Porcupine’s Revenge,” Minetta Review, Spring 2017 (online)
“Fifteen” and “Faceless Women,” S/tick, Issue 3.4 (online)
Creative Nonfiction
“The Insufficience of the Sublime,” The Bellevue Literary Review, 41 (2021).
“These Shoes Are Made for Gawking,” Sou’wester, Spring 2019
“Laughing Meditation,” and “Looking Glass,” Glassworks, March 1, 2019 (online)
“Shelfie,” The Coil (online, October 10, 2018)
“Book Notes” and “Novel Playlist,” Largehearted Boy (online, September 4, 2018)
“Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough Swag: Spring Break 2018 at the AWP,” Fiction Southeast (online)
“Death, Up Close and Impersonal,” Chautauqua, 2018 (print)
“General Grant Wore a Pink Dress,” Fourth Genre, 20 (Fall 2018) (print)
“Rough (Draft) Sex, or, Fifty Shades of Impossible,” Gargoyle 65 (2017) (Print)
Honors
Finalist, Mississippi Review Fiction Prize, 2024, for “End of the Line.”
Winner, Reed Magazine’s John Steinbeck Award for Fiction, 2023, for the story “Caesura.”
Finalist, The Masters Review 2022 Novel Excerpt Contest, 2023.
Arizona Commission on the Arts, Artist Opportunity Grant, 2023.
Finalist, 55th New Millennium Award for Fiction, 2023, for “Caesura.”
Semi-finalist, WTAW Press, Alcove Chapbook Prize, 2022.
Finalist, Cutbank, Big Sky, Small Prose Flash Contest, 2021.
Arizona Commission on the Arts, Research & Development Grant, 2020.
Finalist, New Letters 2020 Robert Day Award for Fiction, for “Caesura”
Semi-finalist, Nimrod 2020 Literary Awards: The Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction, for “Caesura”
Finalist, The Masters Review, Winter Short Story Award, 2020, for “Compound Fractures”
Finalist, Indiana Review 2020 Fiction Prize, for “Compound Fractures”
Special Mention, Pushcart Anthology 2020, for “General Grant Wore a Pink Dress.”
Winner, Eric Hoffer New Horizon Award, for The Wonder That Was Ours, 2019
Grand Prize Short List and First Runner-up for General Fiction Category, Eric Hoffer Award, 2019
Second-Place Winner, Friends of American Writers (Chicago) Literary Award, for The Wonder That Was Ours, 2019.
Finalist, Philadelphia Stories Short Fiction Contest, for “King Solomon’s Sword,” 2019.
Pima County Library Writer in Residence, Spring 2019
Long List, Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, 2018
Winner, Dzanc Books 2017 Prize for Fiction
Honorable Mention, New Flash Fiction Review, Anton Chekhov Prize for Very Short Fiction, 2018
Notable Mention, Gemini Magazine, 2018 Short Story Competition
Finalist, Bellingham Review, Annual Annie Dillard Award for Creative Nonfiction, 2017
Finalist, Fourth Genre, Annual Steinberg Essay Contest, 2017
Honorable Mention, Glimmer Train, April/May Fiction Open, 2016
Participant, Tucson Festival of Books Masters’ Workshop, 2016
Second Place, Southwest Authors’ Association 2016 Poetry Contest
About
After graduating from 28th grade at the University of Michigan, Alice Hatcher turned her attention from footnotes to fiction, and, after writing 3,476 drafts of a novel, published The Wonder That Was Ours. Winner of the 2017 Dzanc Books Prize for Fiction, The Wonder That Was Ours appeared on the long list for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize. Hatcher has also published short stories, essays, and poetry. With support from the Arizona Commission on the Arts, she recently completed a second novel and is currently seeking literary representation. Hatcher teaches workshops at the Tucson branch of the NYC-based creative writing school, The Writers Studio.
