NANCE VAN WINCKEL
152 The Paris-American
Nance Van Winckel is the author of six
collections of poems, including After A Spell, winner of the 1999
Washington State Governor’s Award for Poetry, and the recently released Pacific
Walkers (U. of Washington Press, 2013). She is the recipient of two NEA
Poetry Fellowships and awards from the Poetry Society of America, Poetry,
and Prairie Schooner. Recent poems appear in The Pushcart Prize
Anthology, The Southern Review, Poetry Northwest, Crazyhorse, Field, and
Gettysburg Review. She
is also the author of four collections of linked short stories and a recent
recipient of a Christopher Isherwood Fiction Fellowship. Boneland, her
newest book of fiction, is just out with U. of Oklahoma Press. Her stories have
been published in AGNI, The Massachusetts Review, The Sun, and Kenyon
Review. Nance’s photo-collage work has appeared in Handsome
Journal, The Cincinnati Review, Em, Dark Sky, Diode, Ilk, and Western
Humanities Review. New visual work and an essay on poetry and
photography appear in Poetry Northwest and excerpts from a forthcoming
collage novel in The Kenyon Review Online. Click
this link to see a collection of Nance Van Winckel’s mash-ups of poetry and
photography, which she calls photoems. She is Professor Emerita in
Eastern Washington University’s graduate creative writing program, as well as a
faculty member of Vermont College of Fine Arts low-residency MFA program. She
lives near Spokane, Washington with her husband, the artist Rik Nelson. Her
personal web page is here.
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