Antonya Nelson

Antonya Nelson (born January 6, 1961) is an American author and teacher of creative writing who writes primarily short stories.

Antonya Nelson
Nelson at the 2009 Texas Book Festival
Born	(1961-01-06) January 6, 1961 (age 64) Wichita, Kansas, U.S.
Occupation	Author educator
Education	University of Kansas (BA) University of Arizona (MFA)

Life and education

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]

Career

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

Selected awards

• National Endowment for the Arts Literary Fellowship, 1989^[7]
• Guggenheim Fellowship, 2000^[8]
• Rea Award for the Short Story, 2003^[9]
• United States Artists Fellow, 2009.^[10]

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^[a]

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.
Shauntrelle	2007	Nelson, Antonya (July 23, 2007). "Shauntrelle". The New Yorker. Vol. 89, no. 21. pp. 66–73.

Notes

1. Short stories unless otherwise noted.