Whitney is the author of BIG BAD, winner of the 2019 Mary McCarthy Prize, a 2022 IPPY Gold Medal, and a 2021 INDIES Bronze. Her second book, RICKY & OTHER LOVE STORIES, is forthcoming January 2024. In 2022, she earned a Distinguished Story nod from Best American Short Stories. In addition, she won the 2021 ProForma Contest, a 2020 Pushcart Prize, a 2020 Pushcart Prize Special Mention, and the 2020 American Short(er) Fiction Prize. Her stories have appeared/are forthcoming in American Short Fiction, AGNI, The Idaho Review, The Best Small Fictions 2022, Gulf Coast, and the Catapult anthology TINY NIGHTMARES, among others.