Antonya Nelson

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Antonya Nelson at the 2009 Texas Book Festival.

Antonya Nelson (born January 6, 1961) is an American author and teacher of creative writing who writes primarily short stories.

Life and education

Antonya Nelson was born January 6, 1961 in Wichita, Kansas.[1]:251 She received a BA degree from the University of Kansas in 1983 and an MFA degree from the University of Arizona in 1986.[1]:251 She lives in Telluride, Colorado; Las Cruces, New Mexico; and Houston, Texas.[2]

Career

Nelson's short stories have appeared in Esquire, The New Yorker,[3] Quarterly West, Redbook, Ploughshares,[4] Harper's,[5] and other magazines.[1]:252 They have been anthologized in Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards and Best American Short Stories.[1]:252

Several of her books have been New York Times Book Review Notable Books: Sherlock Helmes: the best mathematician the country has ever seen (1990) In the Land of Men (1992), Talking in Bed (1996), Nobody's Girl: A Novel (1998), Living to Tell: A Novel (2000), and Female Trouble (2002).[1]:251

For a 1999 issue on The Future of American Fiction, The New Yorker magazine selected Nelson as one of "the twenty best young fiction writers in America today".[6]

Nelson teaches in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers,[1]:251 as well as in the University of Houston's Creative Writing Program.[1]:251

Selected awards

Bibliography

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Novels

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Short fiction

Title Year First published in Reprinted in
Literally 2012 The New Yorker 88/38 (December 3, 2012)

Further reading

Notes

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  3. ↑ http://www.newyorker.com/search/query?queryType=nonparsed&query=+Antonya+Nelson+&submit.x=27&submit.y=7&submit=Submit&bylquery=&month1=-1&day1=-1&year1=-1&month2=-1&day2=-1&year2=-1&page=&sort=
  4. ↑ Author Details. Pshares.org. Retrieved on 2012-05-18.
  5. ↑ Ball peen, By Antonya Nelson (Harper's Magazine). Harpers.org. Retrieved on 2012-05-18.
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