Assistant Professor

office: 51 McReynolds
phone: 573-882-4202
email: levye@missouri.edu
office hours: by appointment

Research and teaching areas:
Creative Nonfiction: personal essay,
memoir, and literary journalism;
Nature Writing; Independent Film.
The Short Story.
 

E.J. Levy

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

• The New York Times: "The Maggots in Your Mushrooms"
• The Missouri Review: "Home Is Where the Heart Aches"
• The Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: "Mastering the Art of French Cooking"

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