Jeannie's profile

​Jeannie Vanasco is the author most recently of A Silent Treatment, which Booklist in its starred review described as "a beautiful gift to all who have struggled to care for a loved one in the way they needed." Her other memoirs include Things We Didn’t Talk About When I Was a Girl—a ​New York Times Editors' Choice and a best book of 2019 by TIMEEsquireKirkus, among others—and The Glass Eye, which Poets & Writers called one of the five best literary nonfiction debuts of 2017. 

Her essays have appeared in the Believer, the New York Times​, the Times Literary Supplement, and elsewhere. They cover subjects as wide-ranging as artificial eyes in fiction, artists named after dead siblings, nineteenth-century house-moving, and the history of erasure literature. Her poetry honors include an Emerging Poets Fellowship from Poets House and an Amy Award from Poets & Writers. ​

Born and raised in Sandusky, Ohio, she lives in Baltimore and is an associate professor of English at Towson University. 

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