Nancy Avery DafoeAuthor/educator Nancy Avery Dafoe has 16 published books. In addition to her novel Yet in the Land of the Living, her most recent work includes a poetry book collaboration with Mississippi artist Jamie Tate: Got Some River in Us (FLP, 2026); a poetrycollection focused on man's responsibility to the Earth-When Mine Canaries Stop Singing (FLP, June 2024), a memoir Unstuck in Time (PWP, 2021), and a literary novel Socrates is Dead Again (PWP, 2022) which earned the gold award from the Human Relations Indie Book Awards in 2023. Unstuck in Time won the Director's Choice Award in 2023 from Human Relations Indie Books. Her poetry has won national awards, including the William Faulkner/Wisdom Creative Writing Award (2016). Her prose short stories have also won national awards, including the New Century Writer contest. The Central New York writer has also written a memoir, An Iceberg in Paradise. about her mother's Alzheimer's and its effect on the family (SUNY Press, 2015). Her contemporary fable/novella Naimah and Ajmal on Newton's Mountain (FLP) joins her other fiction work, including three mystery novels in the Vena Goodwin series: You Enter a Room, Both End in Speculation, and Murder on Ponte Vecchio (RPP). Her other poetry books include The House Was Quiet, But the Mind Was Anxious (FLP, 2022); Innermost Sea; and Poets Diving in the Night (FLP). In addition, Dafoe has written books on educational policy and teaching writing, published through Rowman & Littlefield Education (now Bloomsbury): Breaking Open the Box, The Misdirection of Education Policy, and Writing Creatively. Her short fiction, poetry, and nonfiction work appears in a number of anthologies, including Lost Orchard (SUNY Press) and Lost Orchard II (PWP); NY Votes for Women: A Suffrage Centennial Anthology (Cayuga Lake Books); Birdsong; Earth Care: Environment Problems and Possible Solutions; From the Finger Lakes, a Memoir Anthology (Cayuga Lake Books), and in journals and literary magazines. Dafoe has taught English and writing in a variety of settings, including high school, community college, and workshops. Read More Read Less
