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Antonya Nelson

Biography

Antonya Nelson

Antonya Nelson is the author of eight books of fiction, including Female Trouble and the novels Talking in Bed, Nobody’s Girl, and Living to Tell. Nelson’s work has appeared in the New YorkerEsquire, Harper’sRedbook, and many other magazines, as well as in anthologies such as Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awardsand The Best American Short Stories. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, an NEA grant, and, recently, the Rea Award for Short Fiction. She is married to writer Robert Boswell and lives in New Mexico, Colorado, and Texas, where she holds the Cullen Chair in Creative Writing at the University of Houston.

Antonya Nelson