KU Common Book 2012: About the Author

Eula Biss

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Eula Biss Bio

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Eula Biss holds a BA in nonfiction writing from Hampshire College and an MFA in nonfiction writing from the University of Iowa. Her second book, Notes from No Man's Land, received the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. Her work has also been recognized by a Pushcart Prize, a Jaffe Writers' Award, and a 21st Century Award from the Chicago Public Library. She teaches writing at Northwestern University and is working on a new book about myth and metaphor in medicine with the support of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Howard Foundation Fellowship. Her essays have recently appeared in The Best American Nonrequired ReadingThe Best Creative Nonfictionand the Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Nonfiction as well as in The BelieverGulf Coast, ColumbiaNinth Letter, theNorth American Review, the Bellingham Review, the Seneca Review, and Harper's.


For more information about the author, visit her website at http://www.eulabiss.net/about.html

Poems and Essays - Eula Biss

The Iowa Review:  Time and Distance Overcome

Hanging Loose:  Babylon

Hanging Loose:  Dear Smoker

Harper's:  This is not a Toy

Harper's:  The Pain Scale

Massachusetts Review:  Living Together, A Letter

North American Review:  Goodbye to All That

Race Traitor:  Team Players