Sydney Blair

(1986)
Associate Professor
Fiction Writing
Director of Creative Writing Program

Degrees

M.F.A. Univ. of Virginia, 1986
B.A. George Washington University, 1971

Interests

Sydney Blair has written a novel Buffalo for which she won the Virginia Prize for Fiction and her stories have appeared in numerous journals including The Texas Review, Callaloo and 64. She has served as faculty sponsor for the MFA program's literary journal Meridian.

Books

  • Buffalo (novel), Viking Penguin, 1991.
  • Buffalo, Voices of the South series, Louisiana State University Press, 2005.

Articles

  • "Honorable Men," (story), Texas Review, (Winter 2002/03).
  • "The End of Summer," (story), Callaloo, (Summer 2001).
  • "Auld Acquaintance," (story), 64, (May 2000).
  • "The Influence and Example of Fitzgerald," (essay), Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook 1996.

Honors

Virginia Prize for Fiction, 1991