Creative Writing Program | Reading Series

Reading Series, Spring 2010

ANTONYA NELSON, fiction writer
Antonya Nelson was born in Wichita, Kansas and attended the University of Kansas and the University of Arizona, where she received an MFA in 1986. She is the author of six short story collections (The Expendables, In The Land of Men, Family Terrorists, Female Trouble, Some Fun and Nothing Right), and three novels (Talking in Bed, Nobody’s Girl, and Living to Tell).
Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Esquire, Harper’s, Redbook and many other magazines, as well as in anthologies such as Prize Stories: the O. Henry Awards and Best American Short Stories. She is the recipient of the 2003 Rea Award for Short Fiction, as well as NEA and Guggenheim Fellowships, and teaches in the Warren Wilson MFA Program, as well as in the University of Houston’s Creative Writing Program. She lives in Telluride, Colorado, Las Cruces, New Mexico, and Houston, Texas.

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