Vermont College of Fine Arts

NANCE VAN WINCKEL, poet and fiction writer, is the author of four collections of linked short stories: Boneland (forthcoming, Sept. 2013), Curtain Creek Farm (‘00, Persea Books), Quake (U. of MO Press, '97), and Limited Lifetime Warranty (U. of MO Press, '94), as well as six books of poems: Pacific Walkers (U. of Washington Press, ‘2013), No Starling (U. of Washington Press, ‘07), Beside Ourselves (Miami U. Press, ’00), After a Spell (Miami U. Press, '98), The Dirt (Miami U. Press, '94), and Bad Girl, with Hawk (U. of Illinois, ‘88). Nance is a Professor Emerita at Eastern Washington U. and the recipient of two NEA fellowships, the Paterson Fiction Prize, the American Short Fiction Award, the Poetry Society of America's Gordon Barber Poetry Award, a Christopher Isherwood Fiction Fellowship, and numerous others. She was the Stadler Poet in Residence at Bucknell in '09. Her website is www.nancevanwinckel.com. She also works on visual poetry that combines photography and text, which may be viewed at: http://photoemsbynancevanwinckel.zenfolio.com/.