Antonya Nelson
Antonya Nelson (born January 6, 1961) is an American author and teacher of creative writing who writes primarily short stories.
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[edit] 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 is married to writer Robert Boswell.[1]:251 She lives in Telluride, Colorado; Las Cruces, New Mexico; and Houston, Texas.[2]
[edit] 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: 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
[edit] Selected awards
- National Endowment for the Arts Literary Fellowship, 1989[7]
- Guggenheim Fellowship, 2000[8]
- Rea Award for the Short Story, 2003[9]
- United States Artists Fellow, 2009. [10]
[edit] Bibliography
[edit] Short Story Collections
- Nelson, Antonya (1999) [1990]. The Expendables. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9780684846859.
- Nelson, Antonya (1999) [1992]. In the Land of Men: Stories. New York: Scribner. ISBN 9780684846866.
- Nelson, Antonya (1996) [1994]. Family Terrorists. New York: Scribner. ISBN 9780684802244.
- Nelson, Antonya (2003) [2002]. Female Trouble. New York: Scribner. ISBN 9780743218726.
- Nelson, Antonya (2006). Some Fun. New York: Scribner. ISBN 9780743218740.
- Nelson, Antonya (2009). Nothing Right. New York: Bloomsbury USA. ISBN 9781596915749.
[edit] Novels
- Nelson, Antonya (1998) [1996]. Talking in Bed. New York: Scribner. ISBN 9780684838007.
- Nelson, Antonya (1999) [1998]. Nobody's Girl: a Novel. New York: Scribner. ISBN 9780684852072.
- Nelson, Antonya (2001) [2000]. Living to Tell: a Novel. New York: Scribner. ISBN 9780743200608.
- Nelson, Antonya (2010). Bound. New York: Bloomsbury USA. ISBN 978-1596915756.
[edit] Further reading
- Jones, Daniel; Jorgenson, John D., eds. (2007). "Nelson, Antonya 1961–". Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. 160. Gale Research. pp. 251–254. ISBN 978-0-7876-7914-9.
- Dellasega, Cheryl (November-December 2004). "Mothers Who Write: Antonya Nelson". Writers Write: The Internet Writing Journal. http://www.writerswrite.com/journal/dec04/nelson.htm. Retrieved 2 July 2009.
- Short Story: "One-Way Ticket" on Fictionaut
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b c d e f g h Jones, Daniel; Jorgenson, John D., eds. (2007). "Nelson, Antonya 1961–". Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. 160. Gale Research. pp. 251–254. ISBN 978-0-7876-7914-9.
- ^ Reynolds, Susan Salter (2009-03-03). "In 'Nothing Right,' writer Antonya Nelson homes in on modern life's contradictions". Los Angeles Times. http://articles.latimes.com/2009/mar/03/entertainment/et-antonya-nelson3?pg=all. Retrieved July 3, 2009.
- ^ 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=
- ^ http://www.pshares.org/authors/author-detail.cfm?authorID=1852
- ^ http://www.harpers.org/archive/2002/02/0079049
- ^ Buford, Bill (21 June 1999). "The Talk of the Town: Comment: Reading ahead". The New Yorker 75 (16): 65, 68. ISSN 0028-792X. "This special summer fiction issue began with what seemed like such a simple, straightforward question: "Who are the twenty best young fiction writers in America today?""
- ^ "NEA Literature Fellowships: 40 Years of Supporting American Writers" (PDF). United States National Endowment for the Humanities. March 2006. p. 32. http://www.arts.gov/pub/NEA_lit.pdf. Retrieved 3 July 2009.
- ^ "Antonya Nelson". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. http://www.gf.org/fellows/10591-antonya-nelson. Retrieved 3 July 2009.
- ^ "The Rea Award for the Short Story - Antonya Nelson". Dungannon Foundation. http://www.reaaward.org/Nelson/Nelson.html. Retrieved 2 July 2009.
- ^ United States Artists Official Website [1]
