Nancy Reisman Biography
Nancy Reisman is the author of The First Desire and House Fires, a short story collection that won the 1999 Iowa Short Fiction Award. Her work has appeared in Best American Short Stories 2001, Tin House, and The Kenyon Review, among other anthologies and journals. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Formerly, she lived in Ann Arbor,
where she taught creative writing at the University of Michigan.
She now lives in Nashville, where, since 2005, she has taught creative writing at Vanderbilt University.
This biography was last updated on 08/01/2011.
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