Nancy Welch

Nancy Welch's short stories have appeared in Ploughshares , Prairie Schooner , North American Review , and elsewhere with citations in Best American Short Stories , Best American Nonrequired Reading , O. Henry , and Pushcart . Her debut collection, The Road from Prosperity (2005), was published by Southern Methodist University Press. Her political essays on caretaking labor and higher education have appeared in Spectre , Tempest , International Socialist Review , and other journals. Professor...See more

Nancy Welch's short stories have appeared in Ploughshares , Prairie Schooner , North American Review , and elsewhere with citations in Best American Short Stories , Best American Nonrequired Reading , O. Henry , and Pushcart . Her debut collection, The Road from Prosperity (2005), was published by Southern Methodist University Press. Her political essays on caretaking labor and higher education have appeared in Spectre , Tempest , International Socialist Review , and other journals. Professor of English Emerita at the University of Vermont, she lives in Hanover, New Hampshire, where she has returned to horseback riding after a forty-year hiatus and is embracing her identities as a writer and barn rat. See less