East Carolina University Scholar Wins the Robert Penn Warren Award for Fiction

Liza Wieland, a professor of English at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, has been chosen as the winner of the 2017 Robert Penn Warren Award for Fiction from the Fellowship of Southern Writers. The award is given out every other year. Professor Wieland will be honored at the fellowship’s annual meeting this November in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Professor Wieland is the author of four novels, three short story collections, and a volume of poetry. She is being honored for her entire body of work. Dr. Wieland’s latest novel is Land of Enchantment (Syracuse University Press, 2015).

Dr. Wieland joined the faculty at East Carolina University in 2007. She is a graduate of Harvard University and earned a master’s degree and a Ph.D. at Columbia University.