Eula Biss

Eula Biss is an essayist and author of On Immunity: An Inoculation , which was named one of the 10 Best Books of 2014 by th e New York Times Book Review . Her second book, Notes From No Man's Land: American Essays , won the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. Faber & Faber published Biss' most recent work, Having Being Had , in 2021. Her writing has been supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Howard Foundation Fellowship, an NEA Literature Fellowship, and a Jaffe Writers' Award....See more

Eula Biss is an essayist and author of On Immunity: An Inoculation , which was named one of the 10 Best Books of 2014 by th e New York Times Book Review . Her second book, Notes From No Man's Land: American Essays , won the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. Faber & Faber published Biss' most recent work, Having Being Had , in 2021. Her writing has been supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Howard Foundation Fellowship, an NEA Literature Fellowship, and a Jaffe Writers' Award. She holds a B.A. in nonfiction writing from Hampshire College and a M.F.A. in nonfiction writing from the University of Iowa. Her essays have recently appeared in The Believer , Harper's , and The New York Times Magazine. See less