Eula Biss

Eula Biss (born circa 1977) is an American non-fiction writer.

She won the Carl Sandburg Literary Award, the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize, the Pushcart Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
She is a Guggenheim Fellow.
She is an editor at Essay Press.

Biography
After earning a bachelor's degree in non-fiction writing from Hampshire College, Biss moved to Iowa City, where she went on to complete her MFA in the University of Iowa's Nonfiction Writing Program.

Biss teaches at Northwestern University.

An artist in residence at Northwestern, Biss is also the author of two books and the founder of Essay Press. Her second book, Notes from No Man's Land, won the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize. In March 2010, Notes from No Man's Land won the National Book Critics Circle Award in the criticism category. Her third book, On Immunity: An Inoculation, was one of the New York Times Book Review'''s 10 Best Books of 2014 and was a finalist for the 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award (Criticism).

Biss lives in Evanston, Illinois. She is married to John Bresland, and they have a son, Juneau. Biss and Bresland are also in a band called STET Everything.

WorksOn Immunity: An Inoculation, Graywolf Press, 2014, Notes from No Man's Land, Graywolf Press, 2009, The Balloonists, Hanging Loose Press, 2002, 

Interviews
 Radio Interview: Eula Biss discusses her book On Immunity, public health and anti-vaccination movements on The 7th Avenue Project radio show.
 Radio interview: Eula Biss is interviewed about race and "Whiteness" by host Krista Tippett on On Being

Reviews

References

External links
Author's website
The "F-Word": Fragment and the Futility of Genre Classification: a Roundtable Discussion with Eula Bliss, Sarah Manguso, Maggie Nelson, and Allie Rowbottom in Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts'' (25.1)
Book TV: Eula Biss "Notes From No Man's Land"

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