Thursday, January 25, 7:00 PM

"Children, lovers, the dispossessed, the heartbroken, the purely evil, Antonya Nelson inhabits them all with the ease of a new master."

-Charles Dickinson

Recently listed by The New Yorker as one of the "twenty young fiction writers for the new millennium," Antonya Nelson is the author of four short story collections, including the forthcoming Female Trouble, and three novels (Talking in Bed, Nobody's Girl, and Living to Tell). Her widely acclaimed stories-described as "tough-talking, provocative tales that plunge deep into the heart of love and solitude"-have appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, and STORY, as well as in anthologies like Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards and The Best American Short Stories. In 1992, 1996, and 1998, the New York Times listed her works among the year's Notable Books. Having received both an NEA Grant and Guggenheim Fellowship, she currently lives in Las Cruces, New Mexico, where she teaches creative writing in the Warren Wilson M.F.A. Program and at New Mexico State University.