Eula Biss

Eula Biss
Eula Biss (2019)
Eula Biss (2019)
OccupationAuthor, Professor
Alma materHampshire College;
University of Iowa
GenreNon-Fiction
Notable awardsCarl Sandburg Literary Award,
SpouseJohn Bresland

Eula Biss (born 1977)[1] is an American non-fiction writer who is the author of four books.

Biss has won the Carl Sandburg Literary Award,[2] the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize, the Pushcart Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award.[3] She is a founding editor of Essay Press[4] and a Guggenheim Fellow.

Life and career

After earning a bachelor's degree in non-fiction writing from Hampshire College, Biss moved to New York City, San Diego, and then Iowa City, where she went on to complete her MFA in the University of Iowa's Nonfiction Writing Program.

Biss taught writing at Northwestern University for fifteen years, from 2006-2021.[5] She is the author of four books and the founder of Essay Press.[6] Her second book, Notes from No Man's Land, won the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize, and in March 2010, the National Book Critics Circle Award in the criticism category. Her third book, On Immunity: An Inoculation, was one of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of 2014[7] and was a finalist for the 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award (Criticism).[8]

Biss lives outside Chicago. She is married to the writer John Bresland, and they have a son.[9]

Works

  • The Balloonists, Hanging Loose Press, 2002, ISBN 978-1-931236-07-2
  • Notes from No Man's Land, Graywolf Press, 2009, ISBN 978-1-55597-518-0
  • On Immunity: An Inoculation, Graywolf Press, 2014, ISBN 978-1-55597-689-7
  • Having and Being Had, Riverhead Books, 2020, ISBN 978-0525537458

References

  1. ^ Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors, s.v. "Eula Biss" (updated August 28, 2015).
  2. ^ Staff (October 21, 2010) "Toni Morrison, Eula Biss Receive Carl Sandburg Literary Awards" American Libraries
  3. ^ Tremmel, Pat Vaughan (March 12, 2010) "Eula Biss Wins National Book Critics Circle Award", Northwestern University website
  4. ^ "Eula Biss - Editor". Essay Press. Archived from the original on July 22, 2011. Retrieved May 12, 2011.
  5. ^ Eula Biss biography Archived 2011-07-17 at the Wayback Machine, Department of English Northwestern University website
  6. ^ "About Eula Biss" eulabiss.net
  7. ^ Sehgal, Parul (October 3, 2014) "Ripple Effects" (review) The New York Times
  8. ^ Staff (January 19, 2015). "National Book Critics Circle Announces Finalists for Publishing Year 2014". National Book Critics Circle. Archived from the original on January 22, 2015. Retrieved January 29, 2015.
  9. ^ Time Out Chicago Issue 208. February 25, 2009

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