Nance Van Winckel

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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. 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 with her husband, artist Rik Nelson 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 The 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 has 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. Nance will be the Stadler Poet in Residence for spring semster 09 at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, PA. She is available for readings and teaching residencies and can be contacted at: nancev@sisna.com or by phone at: 509-255-6302.   PUNCH THE DAY'S OTHER CHEEK WHEN IT TURNS Nance's current writing 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.

Selected Works Fiction Curtain Creek Farm Inter-connected stories, each told by a resident of a commune in Eastern Washington. Poetry No Starling Nance's newest book of poems Poetry book Beside Ourselves “These poems work, walk, shine, splash, and heal.” --Tomaz Salamun Short Story Black Fields, Black Horses Originally appeared in AGNI Quick Links order the newest book, NO STARLING, from Amazon.com Click here to order BESIDE OURSELVES Daily Constitutionals, a short essay E-mail the author Authors Guild

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