Sonja Livingston’s latest book, The Virgin of Prince Street, explores changing cultural and personal conceptions of devotion. An award-winning essayist, she's the author of three other books, including Ghostbread, which won the AWP Prize for Creative Nonfiction. Sonja's essays have been honored with awards from the Deming Fund, The Iowa Review, Arts & Letters, Ruminate, and the New York State Foundation for the Arts. Recent work appears in many journals, including Salon, Creative Nonfiction, Sojourner's and The Rumpus. Sonja splits her time between New York State and Virginia, where she teaches in the MFA Program at VCU.  

Website: www.sonjalivingston.com

Twitter Username: @sonjalivingston

Publications

• The Virgin of Prince Street: Expeditions into Devotion , University of Nebraska Press, American Lives Series (September 1, 2019)
• Ladies Night at the Dreamland , University of Georgia Press, Crux Series in Literary Nonfiction (April 15, 2016)
• Ghostbread , University of Georgia Press (October 1, 2010)
• Queen of the Fall , University of Nebraska Press, American Lives (April 1, 2015)

Awards

• Susan Atefat Prize for Creative Nonfiction
• AWP Prize for Creative Nonfiction
• NYFA Literature Fellowship, Nonfiction
• Deming Fund for Women Nonfiction Award
• Vermont Studio Center Fellowship
• AWP Intro Award, Nonfiction

Employment

• Assistant Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University
• Instructor at University of New Orleans Writing Workshops Abroad / Summers
• Assistant Professor at University of Memphis

Degrees

• Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing / Literary Nonfiction from University of New Orleans
• Master of Science in Counseling & Education from SUNY Brockport

Genres of Interest

Creative nonfiction, Poetry