Antonya Nelson

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Antonya Nelson is the author of nine books of fiction, including Nothing Right and the novels Talking in Bed, Nobody’s Girl, and Living to Tell. Nelson’s work has appeared in the New Yorker, Esquire, Harper’s, Redbook, and many other magazines, as well as in anthologies such as Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards and The Best American Short Stories. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, an NEA Grant, the Rea Award for the Short Story, and, recently, the United States Artists Simon Fellowship. She is married to the writer Robert Boswell and lives in New Mexico, Colorado, and Texas, where she holds the Cullen Chair in Creative Writing at the University of Houston.

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Average rating: 3.52 · 1,502 ratings · 366 reviews · 13 distinct works

	Bound 2.96 avg rating — 506 ratings — published 2010 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Nothing Right 3.75 avg rating — 258 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Female Trouble: Stories 3.97 avg rating — 204 ratings — published 2002 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Some Fun: Stories and a Novella 4.08 avg rating — 101 ratings — published 2006 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Living to Tell 3.61 avg rating — 97 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Nobody's Girl 3.33 avg rating — 84 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions	My rating:
	In the Land of Men: Stories 3.94 avg rating — 70 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Talking in Bed 3.50 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 1996 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Family Terrorists by Antonya Nelson, Melanie Wertelet (Designed by) 4.02 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 1994 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Expendables: Stories 3.92 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 1989 — 3 editions	My rating:

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“There are a thousand things to hear about, informationally, daily, but the thing that doesn't go away is the one to pay attention to.”
― Antonya Nelson

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“Birdy never felt artistic inclination when armed with a marking implement. What came to her were words, always words, commentary and criticism and correction and simple vocabulary curios; she scratched a few of them on the smooth red wall.”
― Antonya Nelson, Nobody's Girl

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