Whitney is the author of two story collections: RICKY & OTHER LOVE STORIES (Sarabande Books 2024), which was longlisted for The Story Prize, and BIG BAD (Sarabande Books 2021), which won the Mary McCarthy Prize, a Gold Medal IPPY, and a Bronze Medal INDIES.

Whitney’s story “Lush” was chosen as a Distinguished Story by The Best American Short Stories 2022. She also won a Pushcart Prize for “The Entertainer,” a Pushcart Special Mention for “The Pupil,” the American Short(er) Fiction Prize for “Ricky,” and the ProForma Contest for “Cray.”

Her stories have appeared or are forthcoming in American Short Fiction, AGNI, The Idaho Review, Gulf Coast, Ninth Letter, The Pinch, The Los Angeles Review, swamp pink, and Book of the Month Club’s literary magazine Volume 0, among others.

Previously, Whitney was a contributing editor for The Weeklings, a book reviewer for Barnes & Noble, a reader for The Louisville Review and Carolina Quarterly, and an editorial assistant for The Sun Magazine. Currently, she is a fiction faculty member at Spalding University’s Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing, where she received her MFA.