Eula Biss
Eula Biss is an American non-fiction writer who is the author of three books.
Biss has won the Carl Sandburg Literary Award, the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize, the Pushcart Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is an editor at Essay Press, which she founded, and a Guggenheim Fellow.Life and career
After earning a bachelor's degree in non-fiction writing from Hampshire College, Biss moved to Iowa City, where she went on to complete her MFA in the University of Iowa's Nonfiction Writing Program.
Biss teaches at Northwestern University. She is the author of three books and the founder of Essay Press. Her second book, Notes from No Man's Land, won the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize, and in March 2010, the National Book Critics Circle Award in the criticism category. Her third book, On Immunity: An Inoculation, was one of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of 2014 and was a finalist for the 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award.
Biss lives in Evanston, Illinois. She is married to John Bresland, and they have a son, Juneau. Biss and Bresland are also in a band called STET Everything.Works
- The Balloonists, Hanging Loose Press, 2002,
- Notes from No Man's Land, Graywolf Press, 2009,
- , Graywolf Press, 2014,
