Jeannie's profile
Jeannie Vanasco is the author of A Silent Treatment, which was named a best book of 2025 by NPR, Electric Literature, For Dear Life with Maggie Smith, and elsewhere. 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 TIME, Esquire, Kirkus, among others—and The Glass Eye, which Poets & Writers called one of the five best literary nonfiction debuts of 2017. Her fourth memoir is under contract with Tin House, the publisher of her other books.
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.
(Author photo credit: JCPenney in White Marsh.)
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