Nance Van Winckel

Nance Van Winckel

Nance Van Winckel is the author of five books of poetry, including her most recent, No Starling (University of Washington, 2007), and After a Spell (Miami University, 1998), which received the Washington State Governor’s Award for Poetry. She has also published three books of short stories, most recently Curtain Creek Farm (Persea Books, 2001). Her short story collection Quake (University of Missouri, 1998) received the 1998 Paterson Fiction Prize. Her poems and short stories have appeared in Poetry, the American Poetry Review, the 2006 Pushcart Prize Anthology, the Gettysburg Review, Field, Volt, the Kenyon Review, Crazyhorse, the Southern Review, AGNI, the Massachusetts Review, Ploughshares, the Georgia Review, and Colorado Review. Nance has received two National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowships, a Pushcart Prize, Poetry’s Friends of Literature Award, Prairie Schooner’s 2007 Edward Stanley Award, two Washington State Artist Trust Awards, The Midland Authors Award, and awards from the Poetry Society of America. Nance also received a 2005 Christopher Isherwood Fiction Fellowship for a work in progress. Nance has taught in the MFA in Writing Program at Eastern Washington University since 1990 and served as editor of the literary journal Willow Springs from 1990 until 1996. She has also taught in the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing Program since 1999. In addition, she does some private manuscript consulting work. Her website is www.nancevanwinckel.com. Nance lives in Spokane, Washington, with her husband, visual artist Rik Nelson.