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.

Publications

  • Review of critic James Wood’s How Fiction Works, Virginia Quarterly Review, Fall 2008
  • Reprint of novel Buffalo, Louisiana State University Press, Voices of the South series, 2005
  • Buffalo (paperback), Viking Penguin, 1992
  • Buffalo, Viking Press, 1991
  • Stories in Callaloo, 64, New Virginia Review, Skyline, The Texas Review, Blue Penny Review, among othersReviews and articles in Virginia Quarterly Review, VABooks/Virginia Foundation for the Arts on-line/Daily Progress, Faculty Book of the Month, Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook, among others

Honors

  • Virginia Prize for Fiction for Buffalo