Nona Caspers

Nona Caspers is a Professor of Creative Writing at San Francisco State University, teaching fiction and nonfiction writing. She holds graduate degrees in literature and creative writing.

Her literary work explores:

• Queer identity and experience
• Narrative structures of grief
• Midwestern cultural landscapes
• Experimental prose forms

Caspers' award-winning books include The Fifth Woman (Mary McCarthy Prize finalist) and Heavier Than Air (Grace Paley Prize). Her fiction and essays appear in Kenyon Review, The Sun, and Black Warrior Review.

Honors include National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and Joseph Henry Jackson Literary Award. Caspers mentors graduate students in creative writing pedagogy and narrative craft.