Nancy Geyer is an essayist and former art critic. Born in Boston, she grew up in multiple places, including a town in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, a suburb of New York City, a suburb of Chicago, and—unhappily for a teenager who had come to love cities—a village in rural upstate New York. Since then she has lived mostly in Washington, D.C., interrupted by lengthy stays in Denver and in Ithaca, NY, perhaps her favorite home and geography of all.
She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, the North American Review’s Terry Tempest Williams Prize, Chautauqua’s Flash Writing Prize, The Iowa Review Award in Nonfiction, Iron Horse Literary Review’s Discovered Voices Award, and Terrain.org’s Nonfiction Prize. Her work has been included in the anthologies Brief Encounters: A Collection of Contemporary Nonfiction (W. W. Norton) and Poets Guide to the Birds (Anhinga Press). She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the Rainier Writing Workshop.
