A UCLA and VONA alum, Ani Cooney is the winner of a PEN / Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. His work can be found or is forthcoming in The Georgia Review, The Adroit Journal, Epiphany Magazine, and Best Debut Short Stories: The PEN America Dau Prize.

He is One Story magazine's 2022
Adina Talve-Goodman Fellow.

Fiction

2020 PEN / Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers

Epiphany Magazine Spring/Summer 2019 "15th Anniversary Issue"

Best Debut Short Stories 2020

2023 Anthony Veasna So Scholar in Fiction

The Adroit Journal Issue Forty-Five, Spring 2023

The Georgia Review, Fall 2023

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