Amber Caron
English
Associate Professor
Biography
Amber Caron is the author of the story collection Call Up the Waters (Milkweed Editions) and the recipient of the O’Henry Prize, the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers, Southwest Review’s McGinnis-Ritchie Award for fiction, and grants from the Elizabeth George Foundation and the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund. A 2026 Utah Artist Fellowship recipient, her stories and essays have appeared in The Best Short Stories 2024: The O’Henry Prize Winners, PEN America Best Debut Short Stories, The Threepenny Review, AGNI, Bennington Review, Southwest Review, Longreads, Writer’s Chronicle, and elsewhere. In addition to teaching courses on fiction writing and contemporary literature, she directs fiction theses and serves on creative writing theses of all genres.