Cornelia Nixon is a novelist, short-story writer and teacher. She was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and has lived most of her life in the San Francisco Bay Area. She was married to poet Dean Young from May 16, 1983 to November 15, 2010.
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Nixon attended the University of California, Irvine where she earned her B.A.. She received an M.F.A. from San Francisco State University and the Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.
Nixon served as a teacher at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana from 1981 to 2000. Nixon joined the faculty at Mills College in Oakland, California in 2000 and continues to teach there today.[1]
Nixon's first book was Lawrence's Leadership Politics and the Turn Against Women a critical essay that examined what Nixon felt to be the negative portrayal of women in D. H. Lawrence's Women in Love.
In 1991, Nixon authored Now You See It, a novel in stories.
Nixon's next literary work was published in 2000. Angels Go Naked is a collection of interrelated short stories that together form a larger narrative. It was reviewed in The New York Times Book Review.[2] Jarrettsville is Nixon's most recent novel and was released October 1, 2009. It has been reviewed, in The New York Times,[3] The Washington Post,[4] Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, San Francisco Magazine.
Nixon has also contributed to several periodicals such as the New England Review, the Iowa Review and Ploughshares.[5]