Nancy Zafris

Nancy Zafris published four previous books of fiction: The People I Know , winner of the Flannery O'Connor award for short fiction and the Ohioana Library Association award for best book of fiction; The Metal Shredders , a New York Times Notable Book; Lucky Strike ; and Home Jar , a collection of short stories named one of the year's ten best books by The Minneapolis Star Tribune . In addition to her own work, Zafris long served as the series editor for the annual Flannery O'Connor Award for...See more

Nancy Zafris published four previous books of fiction: The People I Know , winner of the Flannery O'Connor award for short fiction and the Ohioana Library Association award for best book of fiction; The Metal Shredders , a New York Times Notable Book; Lucky Strike ; and Home Jar , a collection of short stories named one of the year's ten best books by The Minneapolis Star Tribune . In addition to her own work, Zafris long served as the series editor for the annual Flannery O'Connor Award for short fiction. Prior to that she served as the fiction editor of the Kenyon Review . She also was instrumental in developing the generative model for the Kenyon Summer Writers Workshops, where summer after summer she led sessions in fiction writing. See less