Nan Cuba

Nan Cuba (http://nancuba.com) is a Texan whose grandfather was the cofounder of Scott and White Hospital and Clinic. Her paternal grandmother had a degree in elocution, and her maternal grandmother was a ceramicist. Her husband's grandparents immigrated from Moravia.

Nan received her MFA in fiction from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. She is the founder and executive director emeritus of Gemini Ink, a nonprofit literary center (www.geminiink.org), and writer-in-residence at Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio.

As an investigative journalist, she reported on the causes of extraordinary violence in LIFE, Third Coast, and D Magazine. Her creative work has appeared in Quarterly West, Columbia, Harvard Review, Antioch Review, Connotation Press, and storySouth, among others.