Nona Caspers is the author of four books including The Fifth Woman (Sarabande Books, 2018) and Heavier Than Air, which received the AWP Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction and was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. Her fiction has been honored with a NEA Fellowship, Cultural Equity Grant, Iowa Review Fiction Award, and Joseph Henry Jackson Literary Grant and Award, among others.  Stories have appeared in Kenyon Review, Glimmer Train, Epoch, Cimarron Review, The Sun.  She co-edited with Joell Hallowell a nonfiction book Lawfully Wedded Wives:  Rethinking Marriage in the 21st Century.  She teaches Creative Writing fiction and cross genres courses at San Francisco State University and lives in the city.  www.nonacaspers.com

Website: nonacaspers.com

Publications

• Lawfully Wedded Wives: Rethinking Marriage in the 21st Century , Spuyten Duyvil, NY (February 2013)
• Little Book of Days , Spuyten Duyvil, NY (2009)
• Heavier than Air: Stories-AWP Award Grace Paley , University of Massachusetts Press (2006)
• The Fifth Woman , Sarabande (August 7, 2018)

Awards

• National Endowment for the Arts(2008)
• Cultural Equity Grant -- SF Arts Commission(2012)
• Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction-AWP Award(2006)
• NYTBR Editors' Choice (2007)
• Mary McCarthy Award(2017)
• LAMBDA Literary Finalist, Fifth Woman(2018)
• Buzz Feed Must Read Books by Queer Women(2018)

Employment

• Professor at San Francisco Sate University/Creative Writing Department

Degrees

• Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing-Fiction from San Francisco State University

Genres of Interest

Fiction, Creative nonfiction, Poetry