Nina Boutsikaris received her MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of Arizona and has taught first-year writing and creative writing for several years, with a focus on genre resistance. Her work appears in Third Coast, Fourth Genre, Redivider, Brevity, The Los Angeles Review, Hobart, and elsewhere. Recent awards and honors include a 2016 Pushcart Prize nomination, notable essay in Best American Essays 2016, a 2016 Peter Taylor Teaching Fellowship at The Kenyon Review Writer’s Workshop, and Redivider’s 2015 Beacon Street Prize for Nonfiction. Her current project revolves around an archive of intimacies, real and imagined.
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