Knopp's essays have appeared in many of the best publications, including Shenandoah, Gettysburg Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Missouri Review, Connecticut Review, Creative Nonfiction, Iowa Review, Prairie Schooner, and Northwest Review. Seven of her essays have received notable essay citations in the Best American Essays series (1991, 1994, 2001, 2002, 2008, 2010, 2014). Currently, she is completing two books: a collection of autobiographical essays called Like Salt or Love: Essays on Leaving Home; a memoir of sorts, From Your Friend, Carey Dean: Letters from Nebraska's Death Row.
Knopp was born and raised in Burlington in southeastern Iowa, and received her education at the Iowa Writers Workshop, Iowa Wesleyan College, Western Illinois University, and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is an Professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Omaha, where she teaches courses in creative nonfiction, formerly, she taught in the Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Nonfiction at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland and in the MFA program at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. She lives in Lincoln, Nebraska.
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