Blake Sanz

Originally from south Louisiana, Blake Sanz won the 2021 Iowa Short Fiction Award for his collection of short stories, The Boundaries of Their Dwelling, selected by Brandon Taylor. It was also a finalist for the Colorado Book Award and longlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize for Fiction. His essays, interviews, and short stories have appeared in Poets & Writers, Electric Literature, American Short Fiction, Missouri Review, Ecotone, and elsewhere. He has been a work-study scholarship recipient at Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, a fellow at Sewanee Writers’ Conference, a scholar at the Sozopol Fiction Seminars in Bulgaria, a guest panelist at the Tennessee Williams Literary Festival in New Orleans and Napa Valley Writers’ Workshop, and a funded participant at The Community of Writers. His work has also been recognized by the Zoetrope: All Story Short Fiction Competition, and he has held residencies at Jentel Artist Residency in Wyoming, Art Farm in Nebraska, and Elsewhere Studios in Colorado. Son of a Mexican father and a Cajun mother and a graduate of the MFA program at Notre Dame, he teaches fiction at the University of Central Florida.