Education
Hunter College, M.F.A. (Memoir), 2015
New York University, M.F.A. (Poetry), 2013
Northwestern University, B.A. (Creative Writing - Poetry and Fiction), 2006
Jeannie Vanasco, MFA
Associate Professor of English
Contact Info
Areas of Expertise
Creative Writing
Biography
Jeannie Vanasco is the author of two memoirs, Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl and The Glass Eye. Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl—a New York Times Editors' Choice, a Kirkus Best Book of the Year, and a TIME magazine Must-Read Book of the Year—was published in 2019. The Glass Eye—an Indie Next Pick, Indies Introduce Pick, and a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection—was published in 2017. Her essays have appeared in The Believer, The New York Times, the Times Literary Supplement, and elsewhere. Her third book, A Silent Treatment, is forthcoming. She lives in Baltimore and is an assistant professor of English at Towson University.