Nancy McCabe
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Nancy McCabe

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Nancy McCabe is the author of nine books, most recently the middle grade novel Fires Burning Underground, the comic novel The Pamela Papers: A Mostly E-pistolary Story about Academic Pandemic Pandemonium, and the young adult novel Vaulting through Time. Her memoir in essays Can This Marriage Be Saved uses a variety of forms and metaphors to explore the story of her ill-fated youthful marriage. She has also published two adoption memoirs, an essay collection, a novel centered around a host story of sorts, and the reading and travel memoir From Little Houses to Little Women: Revisiting a Literary Childhood. Nancy’s essays have won a Pushcart prize and made the Best American Essays Notable List nine times as well as the Notable List for Best American Nonrequired Reading. Her essays have appeared in Salon, Prairie Schooner, Fourth Genre, Newsweek, Gulf Coast, Crazyhorse, Crab Orchard Review, Colorado Review, Massachusetts Review, Bellingham Review, Louisville Review, and others. She has also received an Individual Artists Fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and two awards from Prairie Schooner. Her books have been finalists in the National Indie Excellence Award, the Eric Hoffer Award, the Montaigne Medal, the American Book Fest Best Book Award, and the Next Generation Indie Award. The Pamela Papers won the 2024 Next Generation Indie Award for humor/comedy. Nancy directs the writing program at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford and teaches creative nonfiction and fiction for the Spalding University Brief Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing.
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