Audio Podcast of a poem from my newest book

Write the Book
A RADIO INTERVIEW WITH NANCE
HEAD CASE, a very short story
Read Nance's newest short-short from THE KENYON REVIEW. Selected as a Notable Story of 2009 by Story South Million Writers Award
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MOST RECENT BOOKS

BOOKS OF POEMS
NO STARLING is Nance's newest collection. It's from The Pacific Northwest Poets Series, edited by Linda Bierds and published in 2007 by the University of Washington Press.
SAMPLE POEM
received the Friends of Literature Award from POETRY MAGAZINE.
Miami University Press, 2003 “Nance Van Winckel looks into the world’s shattered glass and animates the cultures, histories, human dispositions, and decontextualized landscapes found there. For those who celebrate Keats’s Negative Capability--haunting, reflective, discontinuous--lift this mirror and breathe upon it; from the silvery lake of mystery, light’s brief truth glints.”
--Sandra Alcosser
BOOKS OF FICTION
Linked stories, each told by a resident of a commune in Eastern Washington.
SAMPLE SHORT STORY
Originally appeared in AGNI

About Nance

Nance Van Winckel was born in Roanoke, Virginia in 1951 and has lived in Spokane, Washington since 1990. She went to high school in Columbus, Wisconsin and graduated from the U. of Wisconsin--Milwaukee in 1973. She is married to the visual artist Rik Nelson.

No Starling (University of Washington Press, 2007)is Nance’s fifth book of poetry. The others are Bad Girl, with Hawk (U. of Illinois Press, 1987), The Dirt (Miami U. Press, 1994), Beside Ourselves (Miami University Press, 2003), and After A Spell (Miami U. Press, 1998), which received the Washington State Governor’s Award for Poetry.

She's received two National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowships, a Pushcart Prize, Poetry Magazine’s Friends of Literature Award, two Washington State Artist Trust Awards, The Midland Authors Award, and awards from the Poetry Society of America. Her poems have appeared recently in Poetry, The American Poetry Review, the 2006 Pushcart Prize Anthology, The Gettysburg Review, Field, Volt, The Kenyon Review, The Massachusetts Review, and Ploughshares.

Nance with her husband, artist Rik Nelson
She's also published three books of short stories, most recently Curtain Creek Farm (Persea Books, 2000). Quake (U. of Missouri Press, 1998) received the 1998 Paterson Fiction Prize. Limited Lifetime Warranty appeared with the U. of Missouri Press in 1994. New stories appear in The Georgia Review, Colorado Review, and AGNI. Nance received a Christopher Isherwood Fiction Fellowship for 2005 for a work in progress. (For an excerpt from the new book, click on "Black Fields, Black Horses" to the right.)

Nance taught at Lake Forest College in Illinois (1979-90) and currently teaches in the MFA in Writing programs at Eastern Washington University and Vermont College of Fine Arts. She was editor of the literary journal Willow Springs from 1990-96.

She has served as a poet in residence at the University of Montana, U. of North Dakota, and Westminster College. She was the Stadler Poet in Residence in the spring of 09 at Bucknell University.

She has also taught at Centrum Writers Conference, Utah’s Writers @ Work, Portland Oregon’s Wordstock, Seattle’s Hugo House, and at several other writing festivals and conferences.

She is available for readings and teaching residencies and can be contacted at: nancev@sisna.com or by phone at: 509-255-6302.

THINK CODE


NANCE'S CURRENT PROJECT:

Nance has invented a term for her new, cross-discipline work: the PHO-TOEM. She melds photography (her own) with small poems she "graffities" onto the photographic surface.

The PHO-TOEMS link at the top of this page will take you to more examples, or see the link right below for the full gallery of this new work.

PHOT-TOEMS by Nance Van Winckel
This link will take you to the full gallery of my photo-collage (a.k.a Pho-toem) work.