Creative Writing Visiting Writers Series: Eula Biss

Eula Biss
April 7, 2013
All Day
Thompson Library Room 165

Eula Biss holds a BA in nonfiction writing from Hampshire College and an MFA in nonfiction writing from the University of Iowa. Her second book, Notes from No Man's Land, received the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. Her work has also been recognized by a Pushcart Prize, a Jaffe Writers' Award, and a 21st Century Award from the Chicago Public Library. She teaches writing at Northwestern University and is working on a new book about myth and metaphor in medicine with the support of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Howard Foundation Fellowship. Her essays have recently appeared in The Best American Nonrequired ReadingThe Best Creative Nonfiction and theTouchstone Anthology of Contemporary Nonfiction as well as in The BelieverGulf Coast, ColumbiaNinth Letter, the North American Review, the Bellingham Review, the Seneca Review, and Harper's.