Nance Van Winckel
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About Nance 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 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.  PUNCH THE DAY'S OTHER CHEEK WHEN IT TURNS 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. |
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