Bio

Sonya Huber is an assistant professor of creative writing at Georgia Southern University and a faculty member in the low-residency MFA program at Ashland University. Her work has appeared in literary journals including Fourth Genre, Topic, Passages North, Main Street Rag, Literary Mama, Kaleidoscope, Hotel Amerika and Sports Literate and others; in anthologies including Learning to Glow (University of Arizona Press), Young Wives' Tales (Seal Press), Bare Your Soul (Seal Press), Reading for the Maternally Inclined: The Best of Literary Mama (Seal Press), Mama Ph.D. (Rutgers University Press), and Campus, Inc. (Prometheus Books); in periodicals including The Washington Post Magazine, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Psychology Today, In These Times, Sojourner, and Earth Island Journal; and elsewhere. (More on publications...) (Audio: Talks, interviews, etc.)

This photo was taken during a reading for Opa Nobody in Summer 2008 at the excellent Bluestockings Bookstore in New York City.

Born in Evergreen Park, IL and raised in New Lenox, IL, she received her undegraduate degree from Carleton College in Sociology/Anthropology in 1993, her master's in public interest journalism from The Ohio State University in 2000, and her MFA from The Ohio State University in 2004. After living in Minnesota, Illinois, Massachusetts, and Ohio, she moved to Georgia in 2006, where she lives with her son Ivan and teaches at Georgia Southern University. She also teaches in the Low-Residency MFA program at Ashland University.

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Huber has worked as a waitress, an artist's model, a trash collector, gardener, nanny, dishwasher,video store clerk, researcher for the Minnesota Department of Agriculture, canvassing staff for an environmental organization, labor-community coalition organizer, receptionist, mental health counselor, overnight security staff in a mental health center, nonprofit project manager, editor, associate publisher, reporter, medical proofreader, writing instructor for engineering students, adviser to a student newspaper, and finally a professor. She is a big fan of: the Chicago White Sox, her cool son, trips by plane, train and car, coffee, and reading too much too late at night. She is not so great at: cooking and cleaning, video games, saying "no," among many other things.

Awards

Dorothy Golden Excellence in Teaching Award from the Department of Writing & Linguistics, GSU, 2009
College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences Award for Excellence, GSU, 2008
Finalist for Iowa Review contest in Creative Nonfiction, 2008
Finalist for Press 53's first Open Award in Creative Nonfiction, 2008
CBETA Excellence in Education Award 2007
Honorable Mention in 2007 Fourth Genre editors' prize
Finalist for OSU The Journal Alumni Flash Prose Award 2007
Finalist for 2006 Salem Women Writer's award
Finalist for Espy Foundation Award 2006
Finalist for Fugue Nonfiction Contest 2006
StorySouth's Million Writers Award Notable Story 2004
PEO Research Scholar 2003
Robert McCloy Fellowship, American Council on Germany 2003
Press Club of Cleveland Investigative Reporting Second Place 2002
Glimmer Train Short Story Award for New Writers Finalist 1998
National Merit Scholar

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