Body and Bread (Cuba) - Author Bio

Author Bio
• Birth—N/A
• Where—the state of Texas, USA
• Education—M.F.A., Warren Wilson College
• Awards—PEN Southwest Fiction Award
• Currently—San Antonio, Texas


Nan Cuba is the author of Body and Bread (Engine Books, 2013), winner of the PEN Southwest Award in Fiction, one of “Ten Titles to Pick Up Now” in O, Oprah’s Magazine, and a “Summer Books” choice from Huffington Post. She also co-edited Art at our Doorstep: San Antonio Writers and Artists (Trinity University Press, 2008), and published other work in such journals as Quarterly West, Columbia, Antioch Review, Harvard Review, storySouth, and Connotation Press.

As an investigative journalist, she reported on the causes of extraordinary violence in LIFE, Third Coast, and D Magazine. She was a runner-up for the Humanities Texas Individual Award and twice for the Dobie Paisano Fellowship. She received an artist residency at Fundación Valparaiso in Spain and the Imagineer Award from the Mind Science Foundation.

Cuba serves on the Board of Directors of Friends of Writers, Inc., which is a fundraising arm of the MFA Program at Warren Wilson College, is the founder and executive director emeritus of Gemini Ink, a nonprofit literary center, and writer-in-residence at Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio. (From the author.)

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