Antonya Nelson

Antonya Nelson (born January 6, 1961) is an American short story writer, novelist, and creative writing professor known for her psychological explorations of daily life. She wrote the novels Nobody’s Girl (1999), Living to Tell (2001), Bound (2011), and, most recently, published her collection of short stories Funny Once (2014). Her work has been published in The New Yorker, Harper's, Redbook, Esquire and many more. She was included in The New Yorker's 1999 list as one of the “twenty young fiction writers for the new millennium”.