November 11: poet/fiction writer Nance Van Winckel

Recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship, The Paterson Fiction Prize, and a 1999 Washington State Govenor's Award for Literature, Nance Van Winckel's poems and stories have appeared in such places as THE AMERICAN POETRY REVIEW; THE GEORGIA REVIEW, THE NATION, THE OHIO REVIEW, and THE PARIS REVIEW. She teaches in the graduate creative writing program at Eastern Washington University, and has published three books of poetry, BAD GIRL, WITH HAWK (University of Illinois Press, 1988); THE DIRT (Miami University Press, 1994) and AFTER A SPELL (Miami University Press, 1998); two books of stories, both with the University of Missouri Press: LIMITED LIFETIME WARRANTY (1994) and QUAKE (1997) and numerous articles, essays and reviews. Of AFTER A SPELL, The Indiana Review said, "[The] slide into and away from violence energizes her work.... Like Rilke, she is a poet trying to leave the cerebral behind her in order to move into a more spiritual realm via the senses." And poet Linda Bierds says, "Like all successful spell casters, Nance Van Winckel knows just what to offer, just what to withhold."

Books available on campus by Nance Van Winckel:
After a Spell: Poems
The Dirt: Poems
Limited Lifetime Warranty: Stories
Quake: Stories
Bad Girl, With Hawk

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