Creative Nonfiction Committee
Barrie Jean Borich, Chair
Barrie Jean Borich is the author of Body Geographic, forthcoming in the American Lives Series of the University of Nebraska Press. Her previous book, My Lesbian Husband: Landscapes of a Marriage (Graywolf) won the ALA Stonewall Book Awards. She’s the recipient of the 2010 Florida Review Editor’s Prize in the Essay and the 2010 Crab Orchard Review John Guyon Literary Nonfiction Prize, and her essays appear in recent issues of Ecotone, Seneca Review, Indiana Review, Hotel Amerika, New Ohio Review, South Loop Review, and Seattle Review. Her work has been named Notable in Best American Essays and Best American Non-Required Reading and she teaches in the MFA/BFA creative writing programs at Hamline University, where she’s the nonfiction editor of Water~Stone Review. (www.barriejeanborich.net).
Joy Castro
Joy Castro’s first book, The Truth Book: A Memoir (Arcade, 2005), was named a Book Sense Notable Book by the American Booksellers Association and was adapted and excerpted in The New York Times Magazine. Her short fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction have appeared in several anthologies and in journals such as North American Review, Cream City Review, Chelsea, Quarterly West, and Puerto del Sol. She teaches literature, creative writing, and Latino Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and in the low-residency MFA program at Pine Manor College in Boston (www.joycastro.com).
Bich Minh Nguyen
Bich Minh Nguyen is the author of the memoir Stealing Buddha’s Dinner, which received the PEN/Jerard Award and was a Chicago Tribune Best Book of 2007, a Kiriyama Prize Notable Book, and the Great Michigan Read selection for 2009-2010. She is also the author of the novel Short Girls, named a Library Journal Best Book of 2009. Her work has appeared in anthologies including The Presence of Others; The FOUND Anthology; Dream Me Home Safely: Writers on Growing up in America, and Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry and Prose.
Susanne Antonetta
Susanne Antonetta (Suzanne Paola)’s most recent book, Inventing Family, a memoir and study of adoption, is forthcoming from W.W. Norton. Awards for her Body Toxic: An Environmental Memoir (2001) and A Mind Apart (2005), include a New York Times Notable Book, an American Book Award winner, a Library Journal Best Science book of the year, an Elle Reader’s Choice finalist, and many others. She is also coauthor of Tell It Slant: Writing and Shaping Creative Nonfiction. Her essays and poems have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Orion, and other venues. She is half-time professor at Western Washington University.
