Vedran Husić was born in Bosnia and Herzegovina and raised in Germany and the United States. His debut short story collection, Basements and Other Museums (Black Lawrence Press, 2018), was a semifinalist for the 2019 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize. He is the recipient of two fiction fellowships from Provincetown's Fine Arts Works Center and a fiction fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. His short stories and poems have been published in places such as North American Review, Image, Blackbird, Ecotone, and Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading, among others. Excerpts from his recently completed memoir, For Those Truly Living—which deals with his fiancé Naira Kuzmich’s struggle with cancer, their life before and during her illness, and a year of his life following her death—have appeared in Cincinnati Review, Copper Nickel, and AGNI. He currently teaches at Saint Leo University, where he is on faculty for the low-residency MA in Creative Writing program, and lives in Tampa, Florida, with his wife, the writer Anne Barngrover.

Contact
vedranhusic@gmail.com