office: 330 Tate phone: 573-882-4202 email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. office hours: by appointment Research and teaching areas: Creative Nonfiction: personal essay, memoir, and literary journalism; Nature Writing; Independent Film. The Short Story.

EJ Levy (MFA, Ohio State University; BA, Yale), Assistant Professor, teaches creative nonfiction. Her essays have appeared in Best American Essays 2005, The Pushcart Prize Anthology 2007, and The Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction, as well as in The New York Times, The Nation, Utne Reader, The Missouri Review, Salmagundi, and Orion, among other places. Her fiction has been published in the Paris Review, Gettysburg Review, The Missouri Review, and elsewhere. Two of her stories were listed as among "100 Distinguished Stories" in Best American Short Stories (Houghton Mifflin 2003, 2004). Her work has received a Pushcart Prize, The Goldfarb Family Fellowship in Creative Nonfiction, The Chicago Literary Award, a Loft-McKnight Award, a Michener Fellowship, a Nelson Algren Prize, the Margaret Bridgman Scholarship to Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and The Lambda Literary Award for her anthology, Tasting Life Twice: Literary Lesbian Fiction by New American Writers (Avon). She has been Writer-in-Residence at St. Mary's College in Maryland, and a fellow at, among other places, the Millay Colony, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Sacatar Foundation in Brazil.

Selected Publications

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