Nancy Owen Nelson
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Nancy Owen Nelson

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Nancy Owen Nelson has published articles in several academic journals and anthologies. She is co-editor of "The Selected Letters of Frederick Manfred: 1932-1954" (University of Nebraska Press, 1989) and editor of "Private Voices, Public Lives: Women Speak on the Literary Life" (1995, University of North Texas Press) and "The Lizard Speaks: Essays on the Writings of Frederick Manfred" (the Center for Western Studies, 1998). She has a published poetry in the, "What Wildness is this?" (University of Texas Press, March 2007) as well as in the "South Dakota Review" "Lyceum" and "Graffiti Rag," and has creative nonfiction pieces in "Mom's Writing Literary Journal" (Fall, 2008), "Lalitamba" journal, and "Roll: a Collection of Personal Narratives" (Telling Our Stories Press, 2013). She currently offers a manuscript consultation workshop with Springfed Arts of Detroit. Nelson earned her B.A. in French and English at Birmingham-Southern College and her M.A. and PhD in English at Auburn University. She taught composition and literature at Auburn University, Augustana College, Albion College, and Henry Ford College. For three years she served as Assistant Director of the Hassayampa Institute for Creative Writing at Yavapai College, Prescott, AZ. Her memoirs "Searching for Nannie B: Connecting Three Generations of Southern Women" and "Divine Aphasia: A Woman's Search for Her Father," are available for purchase. Her poetry chapbook, "My Heart Wears No Colors," was published in November, 2018, and her poetry collection, "Portals: A Memoir in Verse," was published in 2019. Her chapbook, "Five Points South:Poems of an Alabama Road Trip" will be published in December 2022
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