Profile

Nance Van Winckel’s most recent book is a memoir entitled Sister Zero (Slant Books, 2022).

She’s also the author of nine books of poetry, most recently The Many Beds of Martha Washington (Pacific Northwest Poetry Series, 2021); Our Foreigner, winner of the Pacific Coast Poetry Prize (Beyond Baroque Press, 2017); and Book of No Ledge (Pleiades Press Visual Poetry Series, 2016). Of her five books of fiction, Ever Yrs, a scrapbook novel (Twisted Road Publications, 2014), is her most recent. She is especially interested in combining text and visual art as well as all manner of hybrid forms.

Her author website is: nancevanwinckel.com; her visual poetry website is photoemsbynancevanwinckel.zenfolio.com.

Education

MA - Creative Writing | University of Denver

BA | University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Leslie Ullman

Faculty, MFA in Writing [poetry]

Natasha Sajé

Faculty, MFA in Writing [poetry/CNF]

Connie May Fowler

Faculty, MFA in Writing [fiction/CNF]; Director, Novel Retreat

Robin MacArthur

Faculty, MFA in Writing [fiction]; Novel Retreat

Samuel Kọ́láwọlé

Faculty, MFA in Writing [fiction]

Bret Lott

Faculty, MFA in Writing [fiction/CNF]