JEANNIE VANASCO
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Photo of Jeannie Vanasco in 2021
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Jeannie Vanasco is the author of the memoirs Things We Didn’t Talk About When I Was a Girl—which was named a ​New York Times Editors' Choice and a best book of 2019 by TIME, Esquire, Kirkus, among others—and The Glass Eye, which Poets & Writers called one of the five best literary nonfiction debuts of 2017. Her third book,  A Silent Treatment, is forthcoming.

Her essays have appeared in the Believer, the New York Times​, the Times Literary Supplement, and elsewhere. They cover subjects as wide-ranging as artificial eyes in fiction, artists named after dead siblings, nineteenth-century house-moving, and the history of erasure literature. 

Born and raised in Sandusky, Ohio, she lives in Baltimore and is an associate professor of English at Towson University. 
  • about
  • Things We Didn't Talk About
    • Praise for Things We Didn't Talk About
    • Interviews about Things We Didn't Talk About
    • Excerpt - Things We Didn't Talk About
  • The Glass Eye
    • Praise for The Glass Eye
    • Interviews About The Glass Eye
    • Excerpt - The Glass Eye
  • other work
  • events
  • contact