Nance Van Winckel is the author of three collections of short fiction and four collections of poetry. Most recently Curtain Creek Farm (short fiction) and Beside Ourselves (poetry).
NANCE VAN WINCKEL Nance Van Winckel is the author of three collections of short fiction: Limited Lifetime Warranty, Quake, and most recently Curtain Creek Farm (Persea Books, 2000). Quake received the 1998 Patterson Fiction Prize. Nance has also published four collections of poems, including After a Spell, which won the 1998 Washington Governor’s Award for Literature, and the newly released Beside Ourselves (Miami University Press 2003). She has new stories in Agni,Georgia Review, and Colorado Review, and new poems in Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, Gettysburg Review, Field, New Letters, and Doubletake. She teaches in EWU’s MFA program and is the founder of its Writers in the Community program and a former editor of Willow Springs.