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Jeannie Vanasco is the author of the memoirs The Glass Eye and Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl. Featured by Poets & Writers as one of the five best literary nonfiction debuts of 2017, The Glass Eye was also selected as a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Pick, an Indies Introduce Pick, and an Indie Next Pick. Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl will be published in the US (by Tin House Books) and the UK (by Duckworth/Prelude Books) in October, 2019.
Her nonfiction has appeared in The Believer, the New York Times Modern Love, NewYorker.com, and the Times Literary Supplement, and her essays have twice been named notable selections in Best American Essays. Her poetry has appeared in Little Star, Poet's Country, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere, and her poetry honors include an Emerging Poets Fellowship from Poets House and an Amy Award from Poets & Writers.
She lives in Baltimore and is an assistant professor of English at Towson University.
Her nonfiction has appeared in The Believer, the New York Times Modern Love, NewYorker.com, and the Times Literary Supplement, and her essays have twice been named notable selections in Best American Essays. Her poetry has appeared in Little Star, Poet's Country, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere, and her poetry honors include an Emerging Poets Fellowship from Poets House and an Amy Award from Poets & Writers.
She lives in Baltimore and is an assistant professor of English at Towson University.