- Anne Panning
Anne Panning is an award winning writer of both fiction and nonfiction. She teaches English at
State University of New York at Brockport and co-directs theBrockport Writers Forum .Biography
Anne Panning grew up in
Arlington, Minnesota and attendedAugsburg College . She graduated in 1988 with a degree in English and then joined thePeace Corps . She served in thePhilippines and then returned to the United States to study for herMFA inCreative Writing atBowling Green State University inOhio ; she graduated in 1993. She earned herPhD fromUniversity of Hawaii at Manoa in 1997. [ [http://www.brockport.edu/english/faculty/apanning.htm SUNY Brockport ] ]Panning now teaches
Creative Writing atState University of New York at Brockport and co-directs theBrockport Writers Forum with poet and colleagueRalph Black . She is married and has two children. Panning recently returned from living inVietnam for six months while he husband taught on aFulbright Fellowship and is working on a memoir about the experience, tentatively called "Viet*Mom". [ [http://www.annepanning.com annepanning.com - Home ] ]Publishing and awards
Panning's first collection of short stories, "The Price of Eggs", was published by Coffeehouse Press in 1992. Her next collection, "Super America", was published in 2007 by
University of Georgia Press . The latter is also the winner of the 2006Flannery O'Connor Award and was reviewed inThe New York Times .Her short stories and essays have appeared in
The Florida Review ,The Beloit Fiction Journal ,New Letters ,Prairie Schooner ,The Bellingham Review ,The Black Warrior Review ,The South Dakota Review ,Fine Print ,Writing for Our Lives ,Terminus ,Passages North ,The Alaska Quarterly Review ,The Greensboro Review ,The Writer Magazine ,Quarterly West ,Kalliope ,Kenyon Review ,Laurel Review ,Five Points ,Under the Sun , andCimarron Review .Panning has won various awards for her writing and teaching, including the Chancellor's Award for Teaching in 2006 and 1st Place in the
Passages North Creative Nonfiction contest in 2005. [ [http://www.brockport.edu/english/faculty/apanning.htm SUNY Brockport ] ]References
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