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Jeannie Vanasco is the author of The Glass Eye. 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.
Her nonfiction has appeared in The Believer, the New York Times, the Times Literary Supplement, Tin House, and on NewYorker.com, and her essays have twice been named notable selections in Best American Essays. 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 second book, Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl, will be published by Tin House Books in the fall of 2019.
Her nonfiction has appeared in The Believer, the New York Times, the Times Literary Supplement, Tin House, and on NewYorker.com, and her essays have twice been named notable selections in Best American Essays. 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 second book, Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl, will be published by Tin House Books in the fall of 2019.