Award-Winning Essayist Eula Biss

Eula Biss and her former teacher Marilyn Robinson are speaking Wednesday, October 24th at 7 PM in Iowa City’s Englert Theater. Eula discusses video essays, creative nonfiction, and her work-in-progress nonfiction book about the vaccination controversy in a “Writers Voices” show that will be broadcast today at 8 AM via live streaming on kruufm.com. Eula’s book Notes from No Man’s Land, received the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. Her work has also been recognized by a Pushcart Prize, a Jaffe Writers’ Award, and a 21st Century Award from the Chicago Public Library. She teaches writing at Northwestern University. Her essays have recently appeared in The Best American Nonrequired Reading, The Best Creative Nonfiction and the Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Nonfiction as well as in The Believer, Gulf Coast, Columbia, Ninth Letter, the North American Review, the Bellingham Review, the Seneca Review, and Harper’s. Eula holds a BA in nonfiction writing from Hampshire College and an MFA in nonfiction writing from the University of Iowa.