Antonya Nelson
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Antonya Nelson (b. 1961) is an American author from Wichita, Kansas. She received an MFA from the University of Arizona and has published four collections of short stories, some of which have appeared in magazines including The New Yorker, Esquire, and Harper's. She received a National Endowment for the Arts grant in 2000.
Nelson is the author of five short story collections, including Some Fun (Scribner’s 2006), 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. Her books have been New York Times Notable Books of 1992, 1996, 1998, 2000, and 2002, and she was named in 1999 by The New Yorker as one of the “twenty young fiction writers for the new millennium.”
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.
