Eula Biss (born 1977)Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors, s.v. "Eula Biss" (updated August 28, 2015). is an American non-fiction writer who is the author of four books.
Biss has won the Carl Sandburg Literary Award,Staff (October 21, 2010) "Toni Morrison, Eula Biss Receive Carl Sandburg Literary Awards" American Libraries the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize, the Pushcart Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award.Tremmel, Pat Vaughan (March 12, 2010) "Eula Biss Wins National Book Critics Circle Award", Northwestern University website She is a founding editor of Essay Press and a Guggenheim Fellow.
Life and career After earning a bachelor's degree in non-fiction writing from Hampshire College, Biss moved to New York City, San Diego, and then Iowa City, where she went on to complete her MFA in the University of Iowa's Nonfiction Writing Program.
Biss taught writing at Northwestern University for fifteen years, from 2006-2021.Eula Biss biography , Department of English Northwestern University website She is the author of four books and the founder of Essay Press."About Eula Biss" eulabiss.net 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 2014Sehgal, Parul (October 3, 2014) "Ripple Effects" (review) The New York Times and was a finalist for the 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award (Criticism).
Biss lives in Northampton, MA. She is married to the writer John Bresland, and they have a son.Time Out Chicago Issue 208. February 25, 2009
WorksThe Balloonists, Hanging Loose Press, 2002, Notes from No Man's Land, Graywolf Press, 2009, On Immunity: An Inoculation, Graywolf Press, 2014, Having and Being Had, Riverhead Books, 2020,
References
External links Author's website 2006 Review of the Balloonists 2009 Book TV: Eula Biss "Notes From No Man's Land" 2014 Radio Interview: Eula Biss discusses her book On Immunity, public health and anti-vaccination movements on The 7th Avenue Project radio show. 2017 Radio interview: Eula Biss is interviewed about race and "Whiteness" by host Krista Tippett on On Being The "F-Word": Fragment and the Futility of Genre Classification: a Roundtable Discussion with Eula Biss, Sarah Manguso, Maggie Nelson, and Allie Rowbottom in Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts'' (25.1) 2021 Podcast interview with Granta editor Josie Mitchell on the essay collection "Having and Being Had" 2023 Interview in The Believer with Mara Naselli