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Eula Biss

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Eula Biss is the author of four books: Having and Being Had (2020), On Immunity (2014), Notes from No Man’s Land (2009), and The Balloonists (2002). Her work has been translated into a dozen languages. It has been recognized with a National Book Critics Circle Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a 21st Century Award from the Chicago Public Library. 

As a 2023 National Fellow at New America, she is at work on a collection of essays about how the private property has shaped our world. For the past twenty years, Biss has taught writing in large lecture halls and small community bookstores at public elementary schools and private universities. She developed a commitment to progressive education at Hampshire College, where she studied creative writing and visual art before earning an MFA in nonfiction writing from the University of Iowa. 

She currently teaches nonfiction for the Bennington Writing Seminars. She is a founding editor of Essay Press and a member of the Penny Collective. She lives a mile from Lake Michigan, where she swims in sun and shadow. “She's a poet, essayist, and a class spy…believer and apostate, moth and flame.”

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