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(b.Antonya Nelson was born in Wichita, Kansas. She attended the University of Kansas and the University of Arizona, where she received an MFA in 1986. Her books have been New York Times notable books in 1992, 1996, 1998, 2000, and 2002, and she recently was named by The New Yorker as one of the "twenty young fiction writers for the new millennium."
Antonya Nelson is consistently praised for the beauty of her writing and for her exploration of the emotional terrain of women. In a recent review, The Washington Post Book World caller her "a formidable writer. That is, she's a woman of piercing intelligence, a first-rate stylist, an explorer of language who questions all its customary uses while fashioning evocative descriptions and incisive phrases."
She is the recipient of an National Endowment for the Arts grant and 2000-2001 Guggenheim Fellowship. She divides her time between Telluride, Colorado, and Houston Texas, where she shares, with her husband novelist Robert Boswell, the Cullen Chair in Creative Writing at the University of Houston.
Antonya Nelson is consistently praised for the beauty of her writing and for her exploration of the emotional terrain of women. In a recent review, The Washington Post Book World caller her "a formidable writer. That is, she's a woman of piercing intelligence, a first-rate stylist, an explorer of language who questions all its customary uses while fashioning evocative descriptions and incisive phrases."
She is the recipient of an National Endowment for the Arts grant and 2000-2001 Guggenheim Fellowship. She divides her time between Telluride, Colorado, and Houston Texas, where she shares, with her husband novelist Robert Boswell, the Cullen Chair in Creative Writing at the University of Houston.
Awards: O'Connor (1990)
Novels
Collections
Family Terrorists (1984)
The Expendables (1989)
In the Land of Men (1992)
Female Trouble (2002)
Some Fun (2006)
Nothing Right (2009)
Funny Once (2014)
The Expendables (1989)
In the Land of Men (1992)
Female Trouble (2002)
Some Fun (2006)
Nothing Right (2009)
Funny Once (2014)
Books containing stories by Antonya Nelson
Down on the Sidewalk (2020)
Stories About Children and Childhood from the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
edited by
Ethan Laughman
The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction (2008)
edited by
Christopher Beha and Joyce Carol Oates
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Antonya Nelson recommends
How to Care for a Human Girl (2023)
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Silent Winds, Dry Seas (2021)
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"A pleasure to read; it has a terrific set of characters and situations, and the unknown landscape, for me, became part of the suspense of wondering what would happen next."
Daphne (2018)
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