Antonya Nelson Explained

Antonya Nelson
Birth Date:	6 January 1961
Birth Place:	Wichita, Kansas, U.S.
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.^[1] 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.^[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. They have been anthologized in 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".^[6]

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

Selected works

Novels

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

Short fiction

Collections

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

Stories

width=25%	Title	Year	First published	Reprinted/collected	Notes
First husband	2014	Nelson, Antonya . January 6, 2014 . First husband . The New Yorker . 89 . 43 . 56–61 .
Literally	2012	Nelson, Antonya . December 3, 2012 . Literally . The New Yorker . 88 . 38 .

Further reading

• Book: Daniel . Jones . John D. . Jorgenson . Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series . 160 . 2007 . Gale Research . 978-0-7876-7914-9 . 251–254 . Nelson, Antonya 1961– .
• Web site: Cheryl . Dellasega . Mothers Who Write: Antonya Nelson . Writers Write: The Internet Writing Journal . November–December 2004 . July 2, 2009.
• Short Story: "One-Way Ticket" on Fictionaut

Notes and References

1. Book: Daniel . Jones . John D. . Jorgenson . Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series . 160 . 2007 . Gale Research . 978-0-7876-7914-9 . 251–254 . Nelson, Antonya 1961– .
2. She teaches in the creative writing programs at the University of Houston, and Warren Wilson College.News: Susan Salter . Reynolds . In 'Nothing Right,' writer Antonya Nelson homes in on modern life's contradictions . Los Angeles Times . March 3, 2009 . July 3, 2009 .
3. Web site: Search : The New Yorker . www.newyorker.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110606030425/http://www.newyorker.com/search/query?queryType=nonparsed&query=+Antonya+Nelson+&submit.x=27&submit.y=7&submit=Submit&bylquery=&month1=-1&day1=-1&year1=-1&month2=-1&day2=-1&year2=-1&page=&sort= . 2011-06-06.
4. http://www.pshares.org/authors/author-detail.cfm?authorID=1852 Author Details
5. http://www.harpers.org/archive/2002/02/0079049 Ball peen, By Antonya Nelson (Harper's Magazine)
6. Buford . Bill . Bill Buford . June 21, 1999 . The Talk of the Town: Comment: Reading ahead . The New Yorker . 75 . 16 . 65, 68 . 0028-792X . This special summer fiction issue began with what seemed like such a simple, straightforward question: "Who are the twenty best young fiction writers in America today?".
7. Web site: NEA Literature Fellowships: 40 Years of Supporting American Writers . United States National Endowment for the Humanities . 32 . March 2006 . July 3, 2009 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20060811235711/http://www.arts.gov/pub/NEA_lit.pdf . August 11, 2006 .
8. Web site: Antonya Nelson . John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation . July 3, 2009.
9. Web site: The Rea Award for the Short Story – Antonya Nelson . Dungannon Foundation . July 2, 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090617221635/http://www.reaaward.org/Nelson/Nelson.html . June 17, 2009 . dead .
10. http://www.unitedstatesartists.org/Public2/Home/index.cfm United States Artists Official Website