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Author Jeannie Vanasco signs copies of her debut memoir in Baltimore (2017).

Jeannie Vanasco is an American writer.[1] She is the author of Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl, a memoir about her former friendship with the man who raped her,[2] and The Glass Eye, a memoir about her father and his deceased daughter, Vanasco's namesake.[3] She teaches English at Towson University.

Early life and education

Raised in Sandusky, Ohio,[4] Vanasco described her childhood as idyllic.[5] While at Sandusky High School, she edited the school newspaper[6] and then studied creative writing at Northwestern University where she received the Jean Meyer Aloe Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets.[7] She earned her MFA in poetry from New York University[8] and her MFA in memoir from Hunter College.[9]

Career

After graduating from Northwestern University in 2006, Vanasco moved to New York City to intern for The Paris Review.[10] She later became an assistant editor at Lapham's Quarterly.[citation needed] Between 2006 and 2011, she contributed reviews to the Times Literary Supplement,[11] and in 2011 she began blogging for The New Yorker.[12] In 2017 she published her first memoir, The Glass Eye, which Poets & Writers named one of the five best literary nonfiction debuts of the year,[13] and which the American Booksellers Association selected for its Indie Next[14] and Indies Introduce[15] programs.

In 2019, she published her second memoir, Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl, which Amazon named one of the twenty best books of the year.[16] An editor for the Amazon Book Review said that Vanasco's second memoir "adds a different dimension to the #MeToo conversation—one more intimate, insidious, and full of improbable grace."[17] Writing for Time, Laurie Halse Anderson called Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl "bold, unsettling, timely."[18]

Vanasco is an associate professor of English at Towson University where she teaches creative writing.[19]

Publications

Essays

  • "The Truth About Cats and Daughters" (January 2023, The New York Times Magazine)[20]
  • "My Platonic Romance on the Psych Ward" (September 2017, The New York Times Modern Love column)[21]
  • "What's in a Necronym?" (July 2015, The Believer)[22]
  • "The Glass Eye" (June 2015, The Believer)[23]
  • "Absent Things As if They Are Present" (January 2012, The Believer)[24]

Books

  • Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl, (2019) Portland, Oregon: Tin House Books, ISBN 978-1-94779-354-5
  • The Glass Eye, (2017) Portland, Oregon: Tin House Books, ISBN 978-1-94104-077-5

References

  1. ^ "Announcing the 2020 Ohioana Award Winners – Ohioana Library". 22 July 2020.
  2. ^ Salam, Maya (October 1, 2019). "A Woman Confronted Her Rapist 14 Years Later. Here's What He Said". The New York Times.
  3. ^ "Jeannie Vanasco's 'The Glass Eye' is a brilliant, obsessive memoir". Entertainment Weekly.
  4. ^ "Five authors win 2014 Ohioana Book Awards". The Columbus Dispatch.
  5. ^ Vanasco, Jeannie (2017). The Glass Eye. Tin House Books. ISBN 9781941040775.
  6. ^ "Sandusky Sunday Register Archives, Aug 27, 2000, p. 1". NewspaperArchive.com. August 27, 2000.
  7. ^ "2004-2005: Department of English". Northwestern University.
  8. ^ "Alumni Books". New York University.
  9. ^ "Creative Writing MFA Alumni & Student Publications". Hunter College. Archived from the original on 2018-12-23. Retrieved 2021-03-17.
  10. ^ "Unpaid interns struggle to make ends meet". The Christian Science Monitor. March 5, 2007.
  11. ^ "Google Scholar". Google Scholar.
  12. ^ "Jeannie Vanasco". The New Yorker.
  13. ^ "September/October 2017". Poets & Writers. August 16, 2017.
  14. ^ "The October 2017 Indie Next List Preview". the American Booksellers Association. September 5, 2017.
  15. ^ "Indies Introduce Summer Fall 2017 Titles". the American Booksellers Association.
  16. ^ Stone, Chelsea (November 12, 2019). "Amazon's picks for best books of 2019 are out and on sale". CNN Underscored.
  17. ^ Kodicek, Erin (October 2019). "An Amazon Best Book". Amazon Book Review. ISBN 978-1947793453.
  18. ^ "A Writer Interviewed Her Rapist 14 Years Later. The Resulting Book Is Unsettling and Timely". Time. 26 September 2019.
  19. ^ "Jeannie Vanasco, Assistant Professor of English". Towson University. Retrieved 20 March 2021.
  20. ^ Vanasco, Jeannie (January 24, 2023). "The Truth About Cats and Daughters". The New York Times Magazine.
  21. ^ Vanasco, Jeannie (September 15, 2017). "My Platonic Romance on the Psych Ward". The New York Times.
  22. ^ "What's in a Necronym?". The Believer. July 1, 2015.
  23. ^ "The Glass Eye". The Believer. 2 October 2023.
  24. ^ "Absent Things As if They Are Present". The Believer. January 1, 2012.
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