Steven Church

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Steven Church
Born (1971-12-27) December 27, 1971 (age 50)
Lawrence, KS, United States
Occupationnon-fiction writer, essayist, memoirist
NationalityAmerican
Genre literary nonfiction

Steven Church (born 1971) is an American essayist and writer of memoir and literary nonfiction. Winner of the Glenna Luschei Prize from Prairie Schooner, Recipient of Colorado Book Award in Creative Nonfiction for The Guinness Book of Me: A Memoir of Record, "Auscultation" chosen by Edwidge Danticat for inclusion in the 2011 Best American Essays. [1] Church is the author of The Guinness Book of Me: A Memoir of Record (2005), Theoretical Killings: Essays & Accidents (2009), The Day After The Day After: My Atomic Angst (2010), [2] Ultrasonic: Essays. [3] (2014), One with the Tiger: Sublime and Violent Encounters between Humans and Animals (2016)

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Life and work

Steven Church was born in Lawrence, Kansas in 1971. He earned a Master of Fine Arts in Fiction at Colorado State University in 2002. [4] Church's essays have appeared in The Rumpus, Passages North, DIAGRAM, Brevity, River Teeth, AGNI, Creative Nonfiction, Terrain.org, Fourth Genre, Prairie Schooner, and Salon.com. He is the Founding Editor and Nonfiction Editor of The Normal School , [5] a contributing editor to The Colorado Review, Hallowell Professor of Creative Writing at Fresno State, [6] and a contributor to Longreads.com.

Works

Non-fiction books

Essays

Anthologized works

Other publications

Additional information

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References

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