About Me
An author forever scribbling manuscripts in longhand pencil.
Daydreamer. Wanderer. Scrabbler. New Orleans-born, New Orleanian forever, wherever I am, which is currently the Midwest.
HI! I’m TROY. YOU CAN CALL ME TROY.
MY NOM DE PLUME IS T. E. WILDERSON.
C’est moi, Troy Wilderson, a Midwestern writer, creative writing teaching artist, and copy editor. I work with authors in many genres ranging from literary fiction to magical realism and lyrical memoirs. I have edited manuscripts varying in lengths from short stories to novellas to novels / memoirs.
My short fiction has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, submitted to the Best American Short Story series and has appeared in Roanoke Review, the Tishman Review, the Louisville Review, Notre Dame Review, F(r)iction, Still: The Journal, Pithead Chapel, and Cobalt Weekly, Crack the Spine Anthology XVII, and Coolest American Stories 2023, among others. I hold an MFA in creative writing from Spalding University and was a PEN/Rosenthal Emerging Voices Fellowship finalist and a 2022 McKnight Foundation Creative Writing Fellow.
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“If
it’s both terrifying
and amazing
then you should
definitely pursue it.”
—Erada
My Main literary influences
I’ve always been a wanton and rapacious novel reader.
Then, I fell hard for short story authors.
But whom? Too many to list.
I’ll start (loosely) with those earliest on to the latest
(my boldest influences are in bold):
Raymond Carver
John Cheever
Flannery O’Connor
Chester Himes
Donald Barthelme
Grace Paley
Eudora Welty
Richard Bausch
Alice Walker
James Salter
Denis Johnson
Truman Capote
*Percival Everett*
T.C. Boyle.
Marguerite Duras
Haruki Murakami
Lorrie Moore
Cormac McCarthy
ZZ Packer
Aimee Bender
Tim Gautreaux
Jhumpa Lahiri
Akhil Sharma
Ha Jin
Michael Chabon
Zadie Smith
Kelly Link
Carmen Maria Machado
Natasha Trethewey
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Karen Tei Yamashita
I love to swoon over lovely, lyrical prose,
otherworldly worlds, characters you just love to hate. The world needs more of that.
Let’s work on that.