Neal Bonser, TWH 2025 Sara Patton Recipient: Fiction (Literary Fiction: Novel)

Neal Bonser lives in Tucson, Arizona. He holds an MFA in creative writing from Antioch University Los Angeles. He was an associate editor for the online literary magazine Splinter Generation. He was pleased to be a general contributor at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. His work has appeared in Word Riot, The Oklahoma Review and Two Hawks Quarterly, among others. His story, “Punch Confessions,” was named runner-up in the Flatmancrooked short fiction contest and was published in Mixer Publishing’s debut fiction anthology. He is currently putting the finishing touches on his novel, All My Mistakes.

Author photo: Amy Mitchell.