Antonya Nelson

Antonya Nelson
Nelson at the 2009 Texas Book Festival
Born	(1961-01-06) January 6, 1961 Wichita, Kansas, U.S.
Occupation	Author educator
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.

Life and education

Antonya Nelson was born January 6, 1961, in Wichita, Kansas. She received a BA degree from the University of Kansas in 1983 and an MFA degree from the University of Arizona in 1986. She lives in Telluride, Colorado; Las Cruces, New Mexico; and Houston, Texas.

Career

Nelson's short stories have appeared in Esquire, The New Yorker, Quarterly West, Redbook, Ploughshares, Harper's, and other magazines. They have been anthologized in Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards and Best American Short Stories.

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).

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".

Nelson teaches in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers, as well as in the University of Houston's Creative Writing Program.

Selected awards

• National Endowment for the Arts Literary Fellowship, 1989
• Guggenheim Fellowship, 2000
• Rea Award for the Short Story, 2003
• United States Artists Fellow, 2009.

Selected works

Novels

• Nelson, Antonya (1998) [1996]. Talking in bed. New York: Scribner.
• — (1999) [1998]. Nobody's Girl: a Novel. New York: Scribner. ISBN 978-0-684-85207-2.
• — (2001) [2000]. Living to Tell: a Novel. New York: Scribner. ISBN 978-0-7432-0060-8.
• — (2010). Bound. New York: Bloomsbury USA. ISBN 978-1-59691-575-6.

Short fiction

Collections

• Nelson, Antonya (1999) [1990]. The Expendables. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-684-84685-9.
• — (1999) [1992]. In the Land of Men: Stories. New York: Scribner. ISBN 978-0-684-84686-6.
• — (1996) [1994]. Family Terrorists. New York: Scribner. ISBN 978-0-684-80224-4.
• — (2003) [2002]. Female Trouble. New York: Scribner. ISBN 978-0-7432-1872-6.
• — (2006). Some Fun. New York: Scribner. ISBN 978-0-7432-1874-0.
• — (2009). Nothing Right. New York: Bloomsbury USA. ISBN 978-1-59691-574-9.
• — (2014). Funny Once. New York: Bloomsbury USA. ISBN 978-1-62040-861-2.

Stories

Title	Year	First published	Reprinted/collected	Notes
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.

Further reading

• Jones, Daniel; Jorgenson, John D., eds. (2007). "Nelson, Antonya 1961–". Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Vol. 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. Retrieved July 2, 2009.
• Short Story: "One-Way Ticket" on Fictionaut