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E.J. Levy
E.J. Levy
Assistant Professor
316J Tate Hall
Columbia, MO 65211-1500
phone:
email: LevyE@missouri.edu
Biography
EJ Levy's essays and articles have appeared in many places,
including Best American Essays 2005, The 2007 Pushcart Prize
Anthology, and The Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative
Nonfiction; her essays and articles have been published in, among
other places, The New York Times, The Nation, Utne Reader,
Salmagundi, Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review, and Orion. Writer's Digest
named her among their list of "Twenty-Five Nonfiction Writers To
Watch" in the new millennium. Her fiction has appeared in the Paris
Review, Gettysburg Review, The Missouri Review, North American
Review, and elsewhere, and two of her stories were recognized in
Best American Short Stories among the year's Distinguished Stories.
She has received a number of national awards for her fiction and
nonfiction, including the Chicago Literary Award, a Loft-McKnight
Fellowship, a Goldfarb Family Fellowship, a Michener Fellowship, the
Nelson Algren Prize, the Margaret Bridgman Scholarship to the Bread
Loaf Writers' Conference, and a Lambda Literary Award for her
anthology, Tasting Life Twice: Literary Lesbian Fiction by New
American Writers (Avon). She earned an MFA from Ohio State
University in 2002 and a BA in History from Yale.
Selected Publications
The New York Times: "The Maggots in Your Mushrooms": http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/opinion/13levy.html
The Missouri Review: "Home Is Where the Heart Aches": http://www.missourireview.org/content/dynamic/author_detail.php?author_id=54
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