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Nancy Reisman
Nancy Reisman
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Title: Associate Professor

Program: Creative Writing
Department: English

Office: Benson 418
Phone: 322-2335
Email: nancy.b.reisman@vanderbilt.edu

Degrees

  • M.F.A. University of Massachusetts at Amherst
  • B.A. Tufts University

Research Area

  • Fiction Writing, Contemporary Fiction

Current Research

  • Story and Novel writing

Current Courses

  • Fall 2011
  • English 307 Literature and Craft of Writing
  • English 204 Intermediate Fiction Workshop

Current Positions

  • Associate Professor, Department of English
  • Affiliated Faculty, American Studies and Women's and Gender Studies

Previous Positions

  • Helen Herzog Zell Visiting Associate Professor, University of Michigan
  • Assistant Professor, University of Florida

Professional Societies

  • Associated Writing Programs
  • PEN American Center

Professional Honors

  • 2007 Tennessee Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship
  • 2005 Samuel Goldberg Award in Fiction, National Foundation for Jewish Culture
  • 2004 NY Times Notable Book (The First Desire)
  • 2004 Detroit Free Press Notable Book (The First Desire)
  • 2005 O.Henry Award
  • 2003 Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship
  • 2001 Best American Short Stories selection ("Illumination")
  • 2000 Florida Division of Cultural Affairs Literature Fellowship
  • 1999/00, 1997/98 Fellowships, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown
  • 1999 Iowa Short Fiction Award
  • 1998 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
  • 1996 Halls Fellowship, Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing
  • 1995 Rhode Island Literary Fellowship

Publications

  • The First Desire (novel), Pantheon, NY 2004
  • House Fires (short story collection), University of Iowa Press, Iowa City, IA 1999
  • Stories anthologized in O.Henry Award Stories 2005 (Anchor Books), Jewish in America (University of Michigan Press, 2004), Mother Knows: 24 Tales of Motherhood (Washington Square Press, 2004),Bestial Noise: A Tin House Reader (Bloomsbury Press, 2003), The Iowa Award: The Best Stories 1991-2000 (University of Iowa Press, 2001)
  • Individual stories published in Tin House , Yale Review , Five Points , Kenyon Review , Glimmer Train, Michigan Quarterly Review, New England Review , Subtropics, Narrative , and other journals.