Eula Biss
Artist in Residence
University Hall Room 228
Telephone: (847) 491-7320
Fax: (847) 467-1545
E-mail: e-biss@northwestern.edu
Eula Biss is the author of The Balloonists (Hanging Loose 2002) and Notes from No Man's Land: American Essays (Graywolf 2009). She holds a B.A. in nonfiction writing from Hampshire College and a M.F.A. in nonfiction writing from the University of Iowa. Her work has received a Rona Jaffe Writers' Award, an Illinois Arts Council Award, the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and a Pushcart Prize. She is co-founder and co-editor of Essay Press, a small press dedicated to publishing innovative essays in book form. Her essays have recently appeared in The Best American Nonrequired Reading (Houghton Mifflin 2009), The Best Creative Nonfiction (Norton 2007) and the Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Nonfiction (Simon & Schuster 2007) as well as in The Believer, Gulf Coast, Columbia, Ninth Letter, the North American Review, the Iowa Review, the Seneca Review, and Harper's.
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