{{short description|American novelist (born 1961)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2012}} {{infobox writer |name=Antonya Nelson |image=Antonya nelson 2009.jpg |caption=Nelson at the 2009 Texas Book Festival |birth_date={{birth date and age|1961|1|6}} |birth_place=Wichita, Kansas, U.S. |occupation={{flatlist| *Author *educator }} |education=University of Kansas (BA)<br>University of Arizona (MFA) }} '''Antonya Nelson''' (born January 6, 1961) is an American short story writer, novelist, and creative writing professor known for her psychological explorations of daily life. She wrote the novels ''Nobody’s Girl'' (1999), ''Living to Tell'' (2001), ''Bound'' (2011), and, most recently, published her collection of short stories ''Funny Once'' (2014). Her work has been published in The New Yorker, Harper's, Redbook, [https://classic.esquire.com/topics/fiction Esquire] and many more.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=ANTONYA NELSON |url=https://www.aspenwords.org/people/antonya-nelson/ |access-date=2025-12-13 |website=Aspen Words |language=en-US}}</ref> She was included in The New Yorker's 1999 list as one of the “twenty young fiction writers for the new millennium”.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Antonya Nelson |url=https://www.kwls.org/authors/antonya-nelson/ |access-date=2025-12-13 |website=Key West Literary Seminar |language=en-US}}</ref>
==Early life and education== Antonya Nelson was born in Wichita, Kansas on January 6, 1961. Growing up in a household filled with literature, she was encouraged at a young age to read widely.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Taurino |first=Giuseppe |date=2014-07-15 |title=Until It Isn't: An Interview with Antonya Nelson - |url=https://americanshortfiction.org/isnt-interview-antonya-nelson/ |access-date=2025-12-13 |website=American Short Fiction |language=en-US}}</ref> Her parents’ book collection was open to her as a young girl. She was exposed to diverse literary voices with novels like ''Valley of the Dolls'' and ''Emma.''<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |title=An Interview with Antonya Nelson {{!}} The Missouri Review |url=https://missourireview.com/article/an-interview-with-antonya-nelson/ |access-date=2025-12-13 |language=en-US}}</ref>
Both of her parents were professors of literature at Wichita State University.<ref name=":4">{{Cite web |title=Nelson, Antonya 1961– {{!}} Encyclopedia.com |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/nelson-antonya-1961 |access-date=2025-12-13 |website=www.encyclopedia.com}}</ref> Her mother also writes fiction. They were activists and friends with notable writers such as Allen Ginsberg. Ginsberg wrote poems set in their hometown of Wichita, Kansas. According to Nelson in an interview with Missouri Review, the girl in "Wichita Vortex Sutra" was written partly inspired by Nelson herself.<ref name=":3" />
She has four siblings, three brothers and a sister, and is the oldest among them. She is the only writer and professor among them.<ref name=":5">{{Cite web |title=Atlantic Unbound {{!}} Interviews {{!}} 2002.04.11 |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/interviews/int2002-04-11.htm |access-date=2025-12-13 |website=www.theatlantic.com}}</ref> Two of her siblings studied to become psychologists.<ref name=":3" /> Initially, Antonya Nelson felt called to become a writer as it was encouraged by her parents, and because she is skilled in reading and writing.<ref name=":3" />
In 1983, Nelson graduated from the University of Kansas with her BA in English Literature and a minor in Art History. She received her Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Creative Writing where she studied with accomplished writers and began focusing on her personal career at the University of Arizona in 1986.<ref name=":6">{{Cite web |title=Antonya Nelson |url=https://www.uh.edu/class/english/people/faculty/nelson/index.php |access-date=2025-12-13 |website=www.uh.edu |language=en}}</ref>
In her early twenties, she won the ''Mademoiselle'' young writers' contest and had her story published.<ref name=":5" /> In an interview with ''Atlantic Unbound,'' she described this moment as a "breakthrough" for her as a writer.<ref name=":5" />
==Career== After graduation, in 1989, Nelson was an Assistant Professor of English at New Mexico State University until 1995. She was promoted to Associate Professor in 1995 and held that position at New Mexico State University until the year 2000. From the year 2000 to 2006, she was an official Professor of English at New Mexico State University.<ref name=":6" />
She had a literary agent after graduate school after being referred to one by one of her professors at the University of Arizona. Later, another writer and friend, David Foster Wallace, referred his own literary agent to Nelson and she has been working together with that agent since.<ref name=":7">{{Cite web |title=Mothers Who Write: Antonya Nelson by Cheryl Dellasega, Ph.D. |url=https://www.writerswrite.com/journal/antonya-nelson-12043 |access-date=2025-12-13 |website=Writers Write |language=en}}</ref> thumb|363x363px|University of Houston, Downtown Campus She became a faculty member in 1994 at Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa, North Carolina, and still holds that position currently.<ref name=":6" />
In 2002, Antonya Nelson left New Mexico State University and became a professor and joined the faculty as a creative writing professor at the University of Houston in Houston, Texas. She maintains this position today.<ref name=":6" />
Between the years 2007 and 2014 she was a Writer at Large for ''Texas Monthly.''<ref name=":6" />
Nelson conducts writing workshops for her students at the University of Houston.<ref name=":3" /> Her mentorship and guidance helps influence many young writers develop their own creative voices, but also inspires Antonya Nelson herself.<ref name=":3" />
Nelson's short stories have appeared in ''Esquire'', ''The New Yorker'',<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.newyorker.com/search/query?queryType=nonparsed&query=+Antonya+Nelson+&submit.x=27&submit.y=7&submit=Submit&bylquery=&month1=-1&day1=-1&year1=-1&month2=-1&day2=-1&year2=-1&page=&sort= |title=Search : The New Yorker |website=www.newyorker.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606030425/http://www.newyorker.com/search/query?queryType=nonparsed&query=+Antonya+Nelson+&submit.x=27&submit.y=7&submit=Submit&bylquery=&month1=-1&day1=-1&year1=-1&month2=-1&day2=-1&year2=-1&page=&sort= |archive-date=2011-06-06}}</ref> ''Quarterly West'', ''Redbook'', ''Ploughshares'',<ref>[http://www.pshares.org/authors/author-detail.cfm?authorID=1852 Author Details]. Pshares.org. Retrieved on 2012-05-18.</ref> ''Harper's'',<ref>[http://www.harpers.org/archive/2002/02/0079049 Ball peen, By Antonya Nelson (Harper's Magazine)]. Harpers.org. Retrieved on 2012-05-18.</ref> and other magazines.<ref name="CA"> {{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780787679149/page/251 |title=Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series |publisher=Gale Research |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-7876-7914-9 |editor1-last=Jones |editor1-first=Daniel |volume=160 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780787679149/page/251 251–254] |chapter=Nelson, Antonya 1961– |editor2-last=Jorgenson |editor2-first=John D.}}</ref>{{Rp|252}} They have been anthologized in ''Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards'' and ''Best American Short Stories''.<ref name="CA" />{{Rp|252}}
Her published works of fiction range from short stories to novels, shifting between the two styles as her interests require.<ref name=":4" /> Her debut collection of short stories, ''The Expendibles'' (1990), received the Flannery O’Connor Award. It was also chosen by judge Raymond Carver as the first-prize winner in ''American Short Fiction'' in 1988.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Antonya Nelson |url=https://pshares.org/authors/antonya-nelson/ |access-date=2025-12-13 |website=Ploughshares |language=en-US}}</ref>
In 1999, Nelson & her husband guest-edited ''American Short Fiction''’s magazine together.<ref name=":3" />
Her short story "''Chapter Two''" was published in ''The New Yorker's'' March 26, 2012 publication. This short story appeared in her finalized short story collection “''Funny Once: Stories''” that came out in 2014.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2012-04-09 |title=Interview: Antonya Nelson, Author of Bound - Identity Theory |url=https://www.identitytheory.com/antonya-nelson-author-interview-bound/ |access-date=2025-12-13 |website=www.identitytheory.com |language=en-US}}</ref>
Several of her novels have been ''New York Times Book Review'' Notable Books: ''In the Land of Men'' (1992), ''Talking in Bed'' (1996), ''Nobody's Girl: A Novel'' (1998), ''Living to Tell: A Novel'' (2000), and ''Female Trouble'' (2002).<ref name="CA" />{{Rp|251}}
For a 1999 issue on The Future of American Fiction, ''The New Yorker'' magazine selected Nelson as one of "the twenty best young fiction writers in America today".<ref> {{cite magazine |last=Buford |first=Bill |author-link=Bill Buford |date=June 21, 1999 |title=The Talk of the Town: Comment: Reading ahead |magazine=The New Yorker |pages=65, 68 |volume=75 |issue=16 |issn=0028-792X |quote=This special summer fiction issue began with what seemed like such a simple, straightforward question: "Who are the twenty best young fiction writers in America today?"}}</ref>
Nelson wrote her novel, ''Nobody’s Girl'' (1999), with the intention of transforming typical endings to genre novels like romance or mystery into something different. She incorporates both plots into her novel and defies stereotypes.<ref name=":2" /> The novel was originally called ''Sadness'', but as the story expanded she changed the name.<ref name=":3" />
''Living to Tell'' (2001) is a novel by Nelson that takes place in Wichita, Kansas, where she grew up. The story takes place in a house that is inspired by Nelson’s childhood home.<ref name=":3" />
Her 2002 collection of short stories, ''Female Trouble,'' was written over the course of eight years.<ref name=":5" />
Her novel ''Bound'' was published in 2010. It was inspired by the BTK ("bind, torture, kill") serial killer who terrorized her hometown. ''Bound'' was one that she felt would be a novel. it is a flashback-style novel, also known as analepsis. The BTK showed up and disappeared in her hometown while she was an adolescent. Nelson wanted to write a story including all the details of the murderer’s life and how they intertwined with her own. One example she mentions in an interview is how the BTK attended one of her mother’s colleague’s classes.<ref name=":8">{{Cite web |title=Antonya Nelson – New Letters |url=https://www.newletters.org/on_the_air_shows/antonya-nelson/ |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20250323045211/https://www.newletters.org/on_the_air_shows/antonya-nelson/ |archive-date=2025-03-23 |access-date=2025-12-13 |website=www.newletters.org |language=en-US}}</ref> The novel itself blends psychological insight with narrative momentum and was widely reviewed for its look at marriage, memory, and identity.<ref>{{Cite web |last=bloomsbury.com |title=Bound |url=https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/bound-9781608193004/ |access-date=2025-12-13 |website=Bloomsbury |language=en}}</ref>
In 2016, she taught a fiction workshop for the [https://www.aspenwords.org/programs/summer-words/ Aspen Summer Words] [https://www.aspenwords.org/programs/summer-words/ Conference.]<ref name=":0" />
== Writing style == When writing, Nelson will transform characters if they feel too familiar, like changing gender or relationship, or location of the story. She calls this "torqueing".<ref name=":2" />
Nelson writes from emotional standpoints on close relationships of all kinds, her early stories focusing on family dynamics. ''[https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/11/10/primum-non-nocere Primum Non Nocere],'' for example, is about a young girl and her mother who is a psychotherapist.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Treisman |first=Deborah |date=2014-11-03 |title=This Week in Fiction: Antonya Nelson |url=https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/fiction-this-week-antonya-nelson-2014-11-10 |access-date=2025-12-13 |magazine=The New Yorker |language=en-US |issn=0028-792X}}</ref> For inspiration for novels, she has talked about how she studies people and considers why each person acts the way that they do.<ref name=":1" />
She feels as though it is important to pull inspiration from her personal life for details such as characters, and settings, but doesn’t like to be autobiographical as it limits her writing process. She says if a final work became too close to reality, it would “stop [her] from being incapable of writing something.”<ref name=":8" />
She has stated that for her writing process, a book is finished only if Nelson is no longer interested in expanding on the psychology of her characters. Only then will her books appear published and in stores.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Write |first=Writers |date=2015-01-06 |title=Literary Birthday – 6 January – Antonya Nelson |url=https://www.writerswrite.co.za/literary-birthday-6-january-antonya-nelson/ |access-date=2025-12-13 |website=Writers Write |language=en-GB}}</ref>
In an interview conducted by [https://www.youtube.com/@IowaCityofLit Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature “Writers On the Fly”], she is asked if her short stories are entirely fiction or partly autobiographical. She replies: “in a way that dreams are real to the dreamer, the fiction is real to me”.<ref name=":9">{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEnOVga6pD0 |title=Writers On the Fly: Antonya Nelson |date=2010-12-06 |last=Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature |access-date=2025-12-13 |via=YouTube}}</ref>
Nelson describes her writing and editing process as a coexistence of processes. She looks at it as something to be entertained by, something that she likes to experience by reading out loud. She prefers to write in private, waking up in the middle of the night to do so or leaving the house when she has an idea.<ref name=":3" />
While teaching, she takes notes and works on drafts of short stories and typically comes out with one or two in the fall or winter months. If working on a novel, Nelson takes the summer break to work on those as they declare more time.<ref name=":3" />
== Personal life == In 1984 she married fellow writer and teacher of creative writing, Robert Boswell. They met while both attending the University of Arizona.<ref name=":7" /> They have two kids together, both of them also passionate about the arts.<ref name=":10">{{Cite web |date=2013-04-30 |title=Antonya Nelson and Robert Boswell to give reading at OSU May 10 {{!}} Newsroom {{!}} Oregon State University |url=https://news.oregonstate.edu/news/antonya-nelson-and-robert-boswell-give-reading-osu-may-10 |access-date=2025-12-13 |website=news.oregonstate.edu |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2009-03-03 |title=In 'Nothing Right,' writer Antonya Nelson homes in on modern life's contradictions |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-antonya-nelson3-2009mar03-story.html |access-date=2025-12-13 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}</ref> thumb|383x383px|Downtown Telluride, Colorado Both Nelson and her husband share the Cullen Endowed Chair in Creative Writing at the University of Houston.<ref name=":10" /> They frequently collaborate together on workshops and editing projects.<ref name=":3" />
She lives and separates her time between three different states: Telluride, Colorado; Las Cruces, New Mexico; and Houston, Texas. She spends most of her time writing in the summer in Colorado, where she has spent summers since she was young.<ref name=":9" /><ref name=":5" /><ref name=":3" />
She and her husband have become owners of three blocks of the town of Telluride, CO.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2010-10-27 |title=Living in a Ghost Town (Published 2010) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/28/garden/28ghosttown.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250121082739/https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/28/garden/28ghosttown.html |archive-date=2025-01-21 |access-date=2025-12-13 |language=en}}</ref>
== Awards and honors ==
* David Patrick Scholarship for Excellence in Graduate Studies, 1984<ref name=":6" /> * University of Arizona Mademoiselle Magazine Fiction Award, 1984<ref name=":6" /> * Minnie Torrance Scholarship for Fiction, 1985<ref name=":6" /> * U. of AZ 9 Bread Loaf Scholar PEN Syndicated Fiction Project Winner, 1985<ref name=":6" /> * Illinois Arts Council Fellowship, 1987<ref name=":6" /> * PEN Syndicated Fiction Project Winner, 1987<ref name=":6" /> * Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, 1988<ref name=":6" /><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.fantasticfiction.com/awards/flannery-oconnor-prize/flannery-oconnor-prize-for-short-fiction/1990.htm |access-date=2025-12-13 |website=www.fantasticfiction.com| title=Flannery O'Connor Prize for Short Fiction 1990}}</ref> * University of Georgia Press, 1988<ref name=":6" /> * Nelson Algren Award (Runner Up)<ref name=":6" /> * First Prize, American Fiction '88 Contest, Ray Carver, Judge<ref name=":6" /> * First place, Tucson Weekly annual fiction contest, 1988<ref name=":6" /> * Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Fiction, 1989<ref name=":6" /> * National Endowment for the Arts Literary Fellowship, 1989<ref>{{cite web |date=March 2006 |title=NEA Literature Fellowships: 40 Years of Supporting American Writers |url=http://www.arts.gov/pub/NEA_lit.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060811235711/http://www.arts.gov/pub/NEA_lit.pdf |archive-date=August 11, 2006 |access-date=July 3, 2009 |publisher=United States National Endowment for the Humanities |page=32}}</ref><ref name=":6" /> * PEN Syndicated Fiction Project Winner, 1990<ref name=":6" /> * ''Prairie Schooner'' Readers' Choice Award, 1990<ref name=":6" /> * Inclusion in ''Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards,'' 1992.<ref name=":6" /> * John Gardner Fellow at Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, 1992<ref name=":6" /> * New York Times Notable Book, ''In the Land of Men.,'' 1992<ref name=":6" /> * Inclusion in ''Best American Short Stories,'' 1993.<ref name=":6" /> * Inclusion in ''Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards'' 1993.<ref name=":6" /> * Inclusion in Selected Shorts, 1993: A Celebration of the Short Story. At Symphony Space in New York City.<ref name=":6" /> * Selected by ''Granta'' as one of America's fifty best novelists under the age of forty, 1995.<ref name=":6" /> * Winner of The Heartland Award for ''Talking in Bed'' (awarded by the Chicago Tribune), 1996.<ref name=":6" /> * ''Talking in Bed'' named one of the Top Ten Books of Fiction, Detroit Free Press, 1996.<ref name=":6" /> * New York Times Notable Book, ''Talking in Bed,'' 1996<ref name=":6" /> * Inclusion in ''Best American Short Stories, 1998.'' <ref name=":6" /> * Distinguished Visiting Professor in Creative Writing, 1998<ref name=":6" /> * WSU Inductee, 1998<ref name=":6" /> * Authors of the Pass, 1998<ref name=":6" /> * El Paso Area Authors’ Hall of Fame New York Times Notable Book, ''Nobody’s Girl.,'' 1998<ref name=":6" /> * Named one of twenty American fiction writers for the new millennium by the ''New Yorker'' magazine, 1999<ref name=":6" /> * ''Share Our Strength’s'' Award of Excellence in the Literary Professional category, 1999<ref name=":6" /> * John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, 2000<ref>{{cite web |title=Antonya Nelson |url=http://www.gf.org/fellows/10591-antonya-nelson |access-date=July 3, 2009 |publisher=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Meet our Fellows - Guggenheim Fellowship — Guggenheim Fellowships: Supporting Artists, Scholars, & Scientists |url=https://www.gf.org/fellows |access-date=2025-12-13 |website=Guggenheim Foundation |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":6" /> * New York Times Notable Book, ''Living to Tell.,'' 2000<ref name=":6" /> * ''Living to Tell,'' American Library Association Notable Book of the Year, 2001<ref name=":6" /> * Inclusion in ''Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards'', 2001.<ref name=":6" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Prize Stories 2001 by Series Editor Larry Dark Prize Jury Michael Chabon, Mary Gordon, Mona Simpson {{!}} Penguin Random House Canada |url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/36851/prize-stories-2001-by-series-editor-larry-dark-prize-jury-michael-chabon-mary-gordon-mona-simpson/9780385498784 |access-date=2025-12-13 |website=www.penguinrandomhouse.ca |language=en}}</ref> * Branigan Library Book of the Year, Las Cruces, NM, 2001, ''Living to Tell.''<ref name=":6" /> * New York Times Notable Book, ''Female Trouble.,'' 2002<ref name=":6" /> * San Francisco Chronicle’s Best One Hundred Books of 2002, ''Female Trouble,'' 2002<ref name=":6" /> * The Rea Award for the Short Story ($30,000 award for a body of work), 2003<ref>{{cite web |title=The Rea Award for the Short Story – Antonya Nelson |url=http://www.reaaward.org/Nelson/Nelson.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090617221635/http://www.reaaward.org/Nelson/Nelson.html |archive-date=June 17, 2009 |access-date=July 2, 2009 |publisher=Dungannon Foundation}}</ref><ref name=":6" /> * Finalist, National Magazine Awards, Fiction. ''The New Yorker,'' “Or Else., 2008<ref name=":5" /> * United States Artists Fellow, (selected as one of 50 artists from all disciplines; $50,000.00 prize), 2009.<ref>[http://www.unitedstatesartists.org/Public2/Home/index.cfm United States Artists Official Website] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101110032536/http://www.unitedstatesartists.org/Public2/Home/index.cfm|date=November 10, 2010}}</ref><ref name=":6" /> * New York Times 100 Notable Books 2009, ''Nothing Right.,'' 2009<ref name=":6" /> * Kansas Library Association Book Award (for ''Nothing Right),'' 2010<ref name=":6" /> * New York Times 100 Notable Books 2010, ''Bound''<ref name=":6" /> * Kansas Library Association Book Award (for ''Bound''), 2011<ref name=":6" />
==Selected works==
===Novels===
* (1998) [1996]. ''Talking in Bed.'' New York: Scribner. {{ISBN|978-0-395-68678-2}} * (1999) [1998]. ''Nobody's Girl: a Novel.'' New York: Scribner. {{ISBN|978-0-684-85207-2}}. * (2001) [2000]. ''Living to Tell: a Novel.'' New York: Scribner. {{ISBN|978-0-7432-0060-8}}. * (2010) ''Bound.'' New York: Bloomsbury USA. {{ISBN|978-1-59691-575-6}}.
=== Short fiction ===
;Collections
* (1999) [1990] ''The Expendables''. New York: Simon & Schuster. {{ISBN|978-0-684-84685-9}}. * (1999) [1992]. ''In the Land of Men: Stories''. New York: Scribner. {{ISBN|978-0-684-84686-6}}. * (1996) [1994]. ''Family Terrorists''. New York: Scribner. {{ISBN|978-0-684-80224-4}}. * (2003) [2002]. ''Female Trouble'' New York: Scribner. {{ISBN|978-0-7432-1872-6}}. * (2006). ''Some Fun''. New York: Scribner. {{ISBN|978-0-7432-1874-0}}. * (2009). ''Nothing Right''. New York: Bloomsbury USA. {{ISBN|978-1-59691-574-9}}. * (2014). ''Funny Once''. New York: Bloomsbury USA. {{ISBN|978-1-62040-861-2}}. ;
==== Stories{{efn|Short stories unless otherwise noted.}} ==== {| class="wikitable sortable" width="90%" |- ! width="25%" |Title !|Year !|First published !|Reprinted/collected !|Notes |- |First husband |2014 |{{cite magazine |author=Nelson, Antonya |date=January 6, 2014 |title=First husband |magazine=The New Yorker |volume=89 |issue=43 |pages=56–61 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/01/06/first-husband <!--accessdate=2018-01-05-->}} | | |- |Primum Non Nocere |2014 |Nelson, Antonya. (November 10, 2014). "Primium Non Nocere". ''The New Yorker.'' November 10, 2014 issue. | | |- |Chapter Two |2012 |Nelson, Antonya. (March 26, 2012). "Chapter Two". ''The New Yorker.'' March 26, 2012 issue. | | |- |Literally |2012 |{{cite magazine |author=Nelson, Antonya |date=December 3, 2012 |title=Literally |magazine=The New Yorker |volume=88 |issue=38 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/12/03/literally <!--accessdate=2018-01-05-->}} | | |- |Shauntrelle |2007 |{{cite magazine |author=Nelson, Antonya |date=July 23, 2007 |title=Shauntrelle |magazine=The New Yorker |volume=89 |issue=21 |pages=66–73 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/07/23/shauntrelle <!--accessdate=2025-05-01-->}} | | |}
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==Further reading==
* {{cite book |editor1-first=Daniel |editor1-last=Jones |editor2-first=John D. |editor2-last=Jorgenson |title=Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series |volume=160 |year=2007 |publisher=Gale Research |isbn=978-0-7876-7914-9 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780787679149/page/251 251–254] |chapter=Nelson, Antonya 1961– |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780787679149/page/251 }} * {{cite web |first=Cheryl |last=Dellasega |title=Mothers Who Write: Antonya Nelson |url=http://www.writerswrite.com/journal/dec04/nelson.htm |work=Writers Write: The Internet Writing Journal |date=November–December 2004 |access-date=July 2, 2009}} * [http://www.fictionaut.com/stories/antonya-nelson/one-way-ticket Short Story: "One-Way Ticket" on Fictionaut]
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