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| Born | January 6, 1961 Wichita, Kansas, U.S. |
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| Education | University of Kansas (BA) University of Arizona (MFA) |
Antonya Nelson (born January 6, 1961) is an American author and teacher of creative writing who writes primarily short stories.
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 lives in Telluride, Colorado; Las Cruces, New Mexico; and Houston, Texas. [2]
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
| Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected | Notes |
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| First husband | 2014 | Nelson, Antonya (January 6, 2014). "First husband". The New Yorker. Vol. 89, no. 43. pp. 56–61. | ||
| Literally | 2012 | Nelson, Antonya (December 3, 2012). "Literally". The New Yorker. Vol. 88, no. 38. | ||
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