Antonya Nelson is on the creative writing faculty at the University of Houston. Her first story collection, The Expendables, won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction in 1990. She is the author of four other short story collections, including Some Fun (Scribner's 2006), and three novels (Talking in Bed, Nobody's Girl, and Living to Tell). She lives in New Mexico, Texas, and Colorado.
