Liza Wieland

Liza Wieland (born 1960 [cite LAF|id=n92-49418] ) is an American novelist, short story writer and poet. Wieland has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Christopher Isherwood Foundation, and the North Carolina Arts Council, and her work has been awarded two Pushcart Prizes. [cite web |url=http://www.ecu.edu/english/profiles/wieland.htm |title=Liza Wieland Faculty Profile Page|accessdate=2008-08-21 |publisher=East Carolina University] Her forthcoming novel "A Watch of Nightingales" won the 2008 Michigan Literary Fiction Award and will be published by the University of Michigan Press. [cite web |url=http://www.press.umich.edu/fiction/winners.html |title=Michigan Literary Fiction Awards Winners|accessdate=2008-08-21 |publisher=University of Michigan Press] Wieland earned her B.A. in English from Harvard and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University. She has taught at Colorado College and California State University-Fresno, and has been an Assistant Professor of English at East Carolina University since 2007. [cite journal |last=Robinson |first=Lorraine Hale |year=2007 |title=Dictionary of North Carolina Writers: Alfred Moore Waddell to Jose Zuniga|journal=North Carolina Literary Review |volume=16|pages=238]

Works

Novels
*"A Watch of Nightingales." Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, forthcoming Feb 2009. ISBN 978-0472116720
*"Bombshell." Dallas: SMU P, 2001. ISBN 978-0870744624
*"The Names of the Lost." Dallas: SMU P, 1992. ISBN 978-0870743375

Stories
*"You Can Sleep While I Drive." Dallas: SMU P, 1999. ISBN 978-0870744419
*"Discovering America." New York: Random House, 1994. ISBN 978-0679424598

Poetry
*"Near Alcatraz." Cincinnati: Cherry Grove, 2005. ISBN 978-1932339741

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