Jeannie Vanasco Explained

Jeannie Vanasco is an American writer.[1] She is the author of Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl, a memoir about her former friendship with the man who raped her,[2] and The Glass Eye, a memoir about her father and his deceased daughter, Vanasco's namesake.[3] She teaches English at Towson University.

Early life and education

Raised in Sandusky, Ohio,[4] Vanasco described her childhood as idyllic.[5] While at Sandusky High School, she edited the school newspaper[6] and then studied creative writing at Northwestern University where she received the Jean Meyer Aloe Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets.[7] She earned her MFA in poetry from New York University[8] and her MFA in memoir from Hunter College.[9]

Career

After graduating from Northwestern University in 2006, Vanasco moved to New York City to intern for The Paris Review.[10] She later became an assistant editor at Lapham's Quarterly. Between 2006 and 2011, she contributed reviews to the Times Literary Supplement,[11] and in 2011 she began blogging for The New Yorker.[12] In 2017 she published her first memoir, The Glass Eye, which Poets & Writers named one of the five best literary nonfiction debuts of the year,[13] and which the American Booksellers Association selected for its Indie Next[14] and Indies Introduce[15] programs.

In 2019, she published her second memoir, Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl, which Amazon named one of the twenty best books of the year.[16] An editor for the Amazon Book Review said that Vanasco's second memoir "adds a different dimension to the #MeToo conversation—one more intimate, insidious, and full of improbable grace."[17] Writing for Time, Laurie Halse Anderson called Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl "bold, unsettling, timely."[18]

Vanasco is an associate professor of English at Towson University where she teaches creative writing.[19]

Publications

Essays

Books

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Announcing the 2020 Ohioana Award Winners – Ohioana Library. 22 July 2020 .
  2. Web site: A Woman Confronted Her Rapist 14 Years Later. Here's What He Said.. Maya. Salam. October 1, 2019. The New York Times.
  3. Jeannie Vanasco's 'The Glass Eye' is a brilliant, obsessive memoir. Entertainment Weekly.
  4. Web site: Five authors win 2014 Ohioana Book Awards. The Columbus Dispatch.
  5. Book: Vanasco . Jeannie . The Glass Eye . 2017 . Tin House Books . 9781941040775.
  6. Web site: Sandusky Sunday Register Archives, Aug 27, 2000, p. 1. August 27, 2000. NewspaperArchive.com.
  7. Web site: 2004-2005: Department of English. Northwestern University.
  8. Web site: Alumni Books. New York University.
  9. Web site: Creative Writing MFA Alumni & Student Publications. Hunter College. 2021-03-17. 2018-12-23. https://web.archive.org/web/20181223073543/http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/creativewriting/student.shtml. dead.
  10. Web site: Unpaid interns struggle to make ends meet. March 5, 2007. The Christian Science Monitor.
  11. Web site: Google Scholar. Google Scholar.
  12. Jeannie Vanasco. The New Yorker.
  13. Web site: September/October 2017. August 16, 2017. Poets & Writers.
  14. Web site: The October 2017 Indie Next List Preview. September 5, 2017. the American Booksellers Association.
  15. Web site: Indies Introduce Summer Fall 2017 Titles. the American Booksellers Association.
  16. Web site: Amazon's picks for best books of 2019 are out and on sale. Chelsea. Stone. November 12, 2019. CNN Underscored.
  17. Kodicek . Erin . An Amazon Best Book . Amazon Book Review . October 2019 . 978-1947793453 .
  18. A Writer Interviewed Her Rapist 14 Years Later. The Resulting Book Is Unsettling and Timely. Time. 26 September 2019 .
  19. Web site: Jeannie Vanasco, Assistant Professor of English . Towson University. 20 March 2021.
  20. Web site: The Truth About Cats and Daughters. Jeannie. Vanasco. January 24, 2023. The New York Times Magazine.
  21. Web site: My Platonic Romance on the Psych Ward. Jeannie. Vanasco. September 15, 2017. The New York Times.
  22. Web site: What's in a Necronym?. July 1, 2015. The Believer.
  23. Web site: The Glass Eye. The Believer. 2 October 2023 .
  24. Web site: Absent Things As if They Are Present. January 1, 2012. The Believer.

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