Liza Wieland has published four works of fiction: two novels, The Names of the Lost, (Southern Methodist University Press, 1992) and Bombshell (SMU, 2001), and two collections of short fiction, Discovering America (Random House, 1994) and You Can Sleep While I Drive (SMU, 1999), as well as a volume of poems, Near Alcatraz (Cherry Grove Collections, 2005). Her work has also been awarded two Pushcart Prizes, as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Christopher Isherwood Foundation and the North Carolina Arts Council. She lives in Arapahoe, NC with her husband and daughter.

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
3410:  Introduction to Poetry
1100: Composition

Selected Publications and Presentations
“Preserved in Salt: How Emeril Live!  and Egyptology Are Saving My Marriage” (essay) in Why I Am Still Married,  Karen Propp and Jean Trounstine, eds. Hudson Street Press, New York, 2006.

“Upon the Flooding of Our House” (essay) The Georgia Review,. Athens, GA vol. LVIII no. 4 winter 2004

“The Dinner Table” and “Commandments for Girls” (poems)  Margie: The American Journal of Poetry, Chesterfield, MO, Volume Three, September 2004

“Way In The Middle of the Air” (novella)  Quarterly West, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, #57 spring 2004

“1943: A Dream” (story)  Literal Latte, New York, NY, vol. 9, issue 4, summer 2003

Website Links
Graduate Creative Writing Program