Eula Biss

Eula Biss
Eula Biss (2019)
Born	1977 (age 48–49)
Education	Hampshire College; University of Iowa
Occupations	Author, Professor
Spouse	John Bresland
Writing career
Genre	Non-Fiction
Notable awards	Carl Sandburg Literary Award,

Eula Biss (born 1977) is an American non-fiction writer who is the author of four books.

Biss has won the Carl Sandburg Literary Award, the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize, the Pushcart Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. 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. She is the author of four books and the founder of Essay Press. 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 2014 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.

Works

• The Balloonists, Hanging Loose Press, 2002, ISBN 978-1-931236-07-2
• Notes from No Man's Land, Graywolf Press, 2009, ISBN 978-1-55597-518-0
• On Immunity: An Inoculation, Graywolf Press, 2014, ISBN 978-1-55597-689-7
• Having and Being Had, Riverhead Books, 2020, ISBN 978-0525537458

References

External links

• Author's website
• 2006 Review of the Balloonists Melissa Farnand (Winter 2006). "The Balloonists: Eula Biss". Double Room.
• 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