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E.J. Levy
E.J. Levy
Assistant Professor
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
Books:
Tasting Life Twice: Literary Lesbian Fiction by New American Writers. New York: Avon Books, 1995. Editor. Winner of the Lambda Literary Award
Nonfiction:
“To Cepe, With Love,” forthcoming in Salmagundi, Spring 2011
“Artichoke Hearts,” Kenyon Review, Summer 2010
“The Maggots in Your Mushrooms,” The New York Times, Feb. 12, 2009
“Notes from the Fall,” American Literary Review, 2007
“Home Is Where the Heart Aches,” The Missouri Review, 2005
“Mastering the Art of French Cooking,” Best American Essays 2005
“Amazons,” Orion Magazine, 1999
Fiction:
“The Three Christs of Moose Lake, MN,” The Chicago Tribune, Nov. 2009
“My Life In Theory,” Enhanced Gravity: More Fiction from Washington Area Women, 2006
“Theory of the Leisure Class,” The Paris Review, Summer 2003
“The Best Way Not to Freeze,” The Gettysburg Review, 2002
“Theory of Dramatic Action,” ACM, Winner of the Chicago Literary Award, 2001
“Rat Choice,” The Missouri Review, 2001
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