Antonya Nelson

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

Contents 1 Life and education 2 Career 3 Selected awards 4 Bibliography 4.1 Short Story Collections 4.2 Novels 5 Further reading 6 Notes

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]

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

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]

Bibliography

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. 

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. 

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

Notes

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Name	Nelson, Antonya
Alternative names
Short description	Writer
Date of birth	January 6, 1961
Place of birth	Wichita, Kansas, United States
Date of death
Place of death