Antonya Nelson

Fiction writer Antonya Nelson (Fall 2007) is the author of the short story collections Some Fun, Female Trouble, Family Terrorists, In the Land of Men, and The Expendables and the novelsLiving to Tell, Nobody’s Girl, and Talking in Bed. Her work has been recognized with the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, the Heartland Award for Fiction, NEA and Guggenheim fellowships, and the Rea Award for the Short Story. Antonya is on the creative writing faculty of New Mexico State and shares the Cullen Chair in Creative Writing at the University of Houston with her husband, writer Robert Boswell.