Mary Rogers Field Distinguished University Professor Of Creative Writing

Antonya Nelson is the author of four novels, most recently Bound (2010). Her short story collections include Nothing Right, Female Trouble, Some Fun and In the Land of Men among others. She was named by The New Yorker as one of the "twenty young fiction writers for the new millennium." She has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts grant, the Flannery O'Connor Award for the Short Story and her work has appeared in the anthologies Prize Stories, the O'Henry Awards and Best American Short Stories. She is the Cullen Chair in Creative Writing at the University of Houston.

This semester, Nelson is teaching ENG 302A: Creative Writing II: Fiction Topics: Modeling Classic Writers and Their Contemporary Counterparts. 

Nelson's Works