Tracy DeBrincat, TWH 2027 Teaching Assistant (Fiction & Nonfiction)

Tracy DeBrincat’s short stories and poetry have appeared in a variety of literary journals from Another Chicago Magazine to Zyzzyva. Most recently, the short story The Real Samaritan Joneswas published by Roi Fainéant Literary Press in June 2025.  

Her first work of non-fiction, Letters to Myself the Younger, appeared in Vol. VIII of The New Guard and received a Pushcart nomination. DeBrincat’s novel, Hollywood Buckaroo, received the 2011 Big Moose Fiction Prize and was published by Black Lawrence Press. The award-winning short story collections, Troglodyte and Moon Is Cotton & She Laugh All Night, were published by Elixir Press and Subito Press, respectively. The poem, Hurtling Toward the Millennium Formerly Known as This, was awarded the Southern Prize for Poetry in 1999. She lives in Los Angeles, where she’s been working on a new novel, Once Upon a Coyote, for about 100 years. It’s gonna be great.