Bending Genre: Essays on Creative Nonfiction - Softcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Margot Singer is the author of a novel, Underground Fugue (2017), winner of the Edward Lewis Wallant Prize and short-listed for the Sami Rohr Prize. Her collection of stories, The Pale of Settlement (2007), won the Flannery O'Connor Award, the Glasgow Prize, and the Reform Judaism Prize. Her essays have appeared recently in the Columbus Monthly Magazine, the Normal School, Ninth Letter, Conjunctions, the Sun, and River Teeth, and have been recognized as Notable in Best American Essays and with a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She is a Professor of English at Denison University in Granville, Ohio, where she directs the creative writing program.

Nicole Walker is the author of Processed Meats: Essays on Food, Flesh and Navigating Disaster (2021) Sustainability: A Love Story (2018) and the collaborative collection The After-Normal: Brief, Alphabetical Essays on a Changing Planet. (2019). She has previously published the nonfiction collections Where the Tiny Things Are (2017), Egg (2017), Micrograms (2016), Quench Your Thirst with Salt (2013), and a book of poems, This Noisy Egg (2010). She edited for Bloomsbury the essay collections Science of Story (2019) with Sean Prentiss and Bending Genre: Essays on Creative Nonfiction (2013) with Margot Singer. She is the co-president of NonfictioNOW and is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts award and a noted author in Best American Essays. Her work has been most recently published in the New York Times, Longreads, and Ploughshares, among other places. She teaches at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, AZ and serves as the Crux Series Editor for University of Georgia Press.