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New! Radio Interview on Rachael Hanel's "Weekly Reader" (KMSU-Mankato, MN), April 3, 2008

Bio

Sonya Huber, an assistant professor of creative writing at Georgia Southern University, has been publishing since 1985. Her work has appeared in literary journals including Fourth Genre, Topic, Passages North, Main Street Rag, Literary Mama, Kaleidoscope, Hotel Amerika and Sub-lit 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. (forthcoming from 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...)

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.

Unofficial Bio

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 skateboarding family, 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.