Sonya Huber is a creative writer, journalist, and teacher whose work has appeared and is forthcoming in many magazines, literary journals, anthologies, and other publications, including Fourth Genre, Sub-Lit, Topic, Passages North, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Pudding House, Main Street Rag, Literary Mama, Kaleidoscope, and Hotel Amerika; in anthologies from University of Arizona Press, Prometheus Books, Rutgers University Press, and three anthologies from Seal Press; and in magazines including The Chronicle of Higher Education, Psychology Today, In These Times, Sojourner, and Earth Island Journal.

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Now out! "Anointing of the Sick," an essay on health insurance and other misadventures, in the Spring 2008 Hotel Amerika.

Also forthcoming in Spring 2008 from Rutgers University Press: "In Medias Res," an essay about motherhood in academia, in Mama, Ph.D., an anthology edited by Elrena Evans and Caroline Grant . To join the mailing list, email editors (at) mamaphd.com.

I've signed on as a faculty member at the Ashland University Low-Residency MFA program! The program, based in Ohio with a two-week summer residency, focuses on poetry and nonfiction.

I'm now one of the Creative Nonfiction Editors at Literary Mama, an online e-zine with plenty of reading for "the maternally inclined"! Please contact me; I'd love to see your work.

New essay forthcoming in Fall 2008 from Fourth Genre.

Published Spring 2008 by University of Nebraska Press, American Lives Series, ed. Tobias Wolff
Radio Interview on Rachael Hanel's "Weekly Reader" (KMSU-Mankato, MN), April 3, 2008
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"[S]harp human insights on the omnipresent moral complications of living in Nazi Germany make this a worthwhile read....[A] unique, imaginative take on the family memoir." --Kirkus Reviews

"[T]houghtful discourse on political activism and the toll exacted from those dedicated to unpopular causes." --Booklist

"Amid recent scandals about fraudulent memoirs, her honesty is profound in what it implies about storytelling and genre." --L.A. Times

"Fiction and nonfiction flow together so easily under Huber's control that it looks easy to accomplish."--11th Hour

"...a masterful layering of lives, a beautifully readable and often poetic tracing of the heart lines between grandfather and granddaughter, old leftie and new, Nazi-era German rabble-rouser and present day American activist.... The research in Opa Nobody is prodigious, the history fascinating, the quest for justice inspiring, but the lives here are what will keep you reading, page after page, long into the clamorous night." --Bill Roorbach, author of Temple Stream, Big Bend, and Into Woods