Nancy Zafris is an American novelist, and short story

Short story

A short story is a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, often in narrative format. This format tends to be more pointed than longer works of fiction, such as novellas and novels. Short story definitions based on length differ somewhat, even among professional writers, in part because...

 writer.

She has won individual artist’s grants, from the Massachusetts Arts Council, the Greater Columbus Arts Council, and the Ohio Arts Council. She was a Senior Fulbright Fellow, and taught at Masaryk University

Masaryk University

Masaryk University is the second largest university in the Czech Republic, a member of the Compostela Group and the Utrecht Network. Founded in 1919 in Brno as the third Czech university , it now consists of nine faculties and 42,182 students...

 . She has taught at the University of Pittsburgh

University of Pittsburgh

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, Centre College

Centre College

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, and Ohio State University

Ohio State University

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Her work appeared in Antioch Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Black Warrior Review, Story Quarterly, and Wind. She is the fiction editor of Kenyon Review and series editor for the Flannery O'Connor

Flannery O'Connor

Mary Flannery O'Connor was an American novelist, short-story writer and essayist. An important voice in American literature, O'Connor wrote two novels and 32 short stories, as well as a number of reviews and commentaries...

 award. She lives in Columbus, Ohio

Columbus, Ohio

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Awards

• two National Endowment for the Arts
  National Endowment for the Arts
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   grants
• 1990 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
  Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
  The Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction is an annual prize awarded by the University of Georgia Press named in honor of the American short story writer and novelist Flannery O'Connor....
  
  , for The People I Know

Works

• "Travel" Smoke Long Quarterly
• The Metal Shredders BlueHen Books (2002) ISBN 9780399149221
• Lucky Strike Unbridled Books (2005) ISBN 9781932961041
• "After Lunch" Prairie Schooner Winter 2007
• The People I Know University of Georgia Press, 2009, ISBN 9780820334202

External links

• "Smoking With Nancy Zafris", SmokeLong Quarterly, March 15, 2007)
• "Interview with Nancy Zafris", Emerging Writers Forum
• Kenyon Review
• Prairie Schooner archives