Nance Van Winckel

Nance Van Winckel’s ninth poetry collection, The Many Beds of Martha Washington, is forthcoming in 2021 with the Pacific Northwest Poetry Series/Lynx House Press. She's also published a book of visual poems, Book of No Ledge, with Pleiades Press (2016), and five books of fiction.

Nance's other books of poetry include Bad Girl, with Hawk (U. of Illinois Press, 1987), The Dirt (Miami U. Press, 1994), After A Spell (Miami U. Press, 1998), which received the Washington State Governor's Award for Poetry, Beside Ourselves (Miami University Press, 2003), No Starling (U. of Washington, 2007), Pacific Walkers (U. of Washington, 2013,), and Our Foreigner (Beyond Baroque Books, 2016), winner of the Pacific Coast Poetry Series Prize.

The recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, the Washington State Book Award, a Paterson Fiction Prize, Poetry Society of America's Gordon Barber Poetry Award, a Christopher Isherwood Fellowship, three Pushcart Prizes, Poetry Magazine's Friends of Literature Award, Prairie Schooner's Edward Stanley Award, two Washington State Artist Trust Awards, and The Midland Authors Award, Nance has published in Poetry, The American Poetry Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Kenyon Review, Crazyhorse, The Southern Review, AGNI, The Massachusetts Review, Ploughshares, and many other literary journals..

Her books of fiction include: Ever Yrs (Twisted Road Press, 2014), Boneland (U. of Oklahoma Press, 2014), Curtain Creek Farm (Persea Books, 2001). Quake (U. of Missouri Press, 1998) received the 1998 Paterson Fiction Prize. Limited Lifetime Warranty appeared with the U. of Missouri Press in 1994. New fiction appears in The Georgia Review, Colorado Review, and AGNI. Nance teaches in Vermont College’s MFA Program and lives in Spokane, Washington.