Andi Stout is finishing her undergraduate degree in English at West Virginia University
this semester where she hopes to continue her education in their MFA program. She is the recipient of two writing awards from WVU, including the Waitman Barbe Fiction Award (2009) for Sustained Joy, chosen in a blind submission by Connotation Press editor John Hoppenthaler, and Honorable Mention in the Waitman Barbe Nonfiction competition (2008). Additionally, she took second prize in the Hungry Poets Competition (2009). Andi has tried on many different majors throughout her academic career, but found that writing is the PJ bottoms that fit.
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Andi Stout lives in Morgantown, WV where she is a student at West Virginia University. Although she self-identifies as a West Virginia writer, her fiction explores well beyond her familiar surroundings. She is interested in what is new and strange, the boundaries between reality and fantasy and dreams. In her story "Sustained Joy" she follows the adventures of a couple reunited for an evening in New Orleans during Mardi Gras and the strange encounters that they have there. Emily Mitchell
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