Liza Wieland is the author of seven books: three collections of short fiction, Quickening (2011), You Can Sleep While I Drive (1999) and Discovering America, (1994) three novels, A Watch of Nightingales, (2009) Bombshell (2001) and The Names of the Lost (1992), as well as a volume of poems, Near Alcatraz. (2005). She has won, two Pushcart Prizes, the Michigan Literary Fiction Prize, a Bridport Prize in the UK, and fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts, The North Carolina Arts Council and the Christopher Isherwood Foundation.
Degrees
B.A. Harvard
M.A. Columbia
Ph.D. Columbia
Primary Areas of Research/Teaching
Creative Writing
Contemporary British and American Novel
Emily Dickinson
Courses Taught
6880: Directed Readings In Creative Writing
6865: Special Topics Seminar in Creative Writing
5850: Advanced Fiction Writing
3850: Introduction to Fiction Writing
3815: Introduction to Creative Writing
3410: Introduction to Poetry
2000: Interpreting Literature
1100: Composition
1000: Appreciating Literature
Selected Publications and Presentations
"The Columbus School for Girls” in Stories Wanting Only To Be Heard: Six Decades of Fiction from The Georgia Review. Athens, Ga: University of Georgia Press. 2012
“A Convenient Truth: Writing and Teaching Eco-Fiction” Association of Writers and Writing Programs Annual Conference, Washington DC, (Feb. 3, 2011)
“Beyond Psychobabble: Finding Effective Language for Workshop Critiques,” Association of Writers and Writing Programs Annual Conference, Washington DC, ( Feb. 3, 2011)
“Apparition” Sou’wester Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL vol. 38 number1 fall 2009
“Body and Engine” The Normal School California State University, Fresno vol. 2, issue 2 fall 2009
“Quickening” New South Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA vol. 2 number 2 fall 2009
“Nightingale” Indiana Review no. 30 vol 1 spring 2008
“Slip, Out, Back, Here” inBridport Prize 2007. Sansom & Company, Chippenham, England, 2007.
“Preserved in Salt: How Emeril Live! and Egyptology Are Saving My Marriage” in Why I Am Still Married, Karen Propp and Jean Trounstine, eds. Hudson Street Press, New York, 2006.
“Upon the Flooding of Our House” The Georgia Review,. Athens, GA vol. LVIII no. 4 winter 2004
Website Links
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