Eula Biss is also the author of Notes from No Man’s Land: American Essays and The Balloonists.  She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Howard Foundation Fellowship, and NEA Literature Fellowship, and a Jaffe Writers’ Award.  Biss’ essays have been published in The Best American Nonrequired Reading, The Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Nonfiction, The Believer, Gulf Coast, Denver Quarterly, Third Coast, and Harper’s.  She earned her Bachelor’s degree in nonfiction writing from Hampshire College and her Master’s degree in nonfiction writing from the University of Iowa.