M. C. Benner Dixon lives, writes, and grows things in Pittsburgh, PA. She is quick to make a pun and slow to cut her grass. Her novel, The Height of Land, was the winner of the Orison Fiction Prize. Millions of Suns, a collection of craft essays, is available from the University of Michigan Press.
M. C. Benner Dixon, Ph.D., is a short-story writer, an editor, an award-winning novelist, and a writing coach. Her writing has appeared in The Iowa Review, Literary Hub, Flash Fiction Online, Reckoning, Fusion Fragment, Vastarien, Northern Appalachia Review, and elsewhere. Her books include Millions of Suns: On Writing and Life (2023) and The Height of Land (2025), winner of the Orison Fiction Prize. She is the owner and operator of Zizia Studio, LLC, which offers editing and coaching services online.
