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Nanci Kincaid Books In Order
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| Crossing Blood | (1992) |
| Balls | (1998) |
| Verbena | (2002) |
| As Hot as It Was You Ought to Thank Me | (2005) |
| Eat, Drink, and Be From Mississippi | (2008) |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| Pretending the Bed is a Raft | (1997) |
Publication Order of Anthologies
| Walking on Water and Other Stories | (1996) |
Nanci Kincaid is an American novelist of literary fiction who was born in Tallahassee, Florida. She spent her childhood in Richmond and went to Huguenot High School.
After graduating from high school, she attended several colleges including Athens State College, University of Wyoming, and Virginia Tech from where she got her bachelor’s degree. Later, she went to the University of Alabama where she got her Masters in Fine Art in creative fiction.
Nanci would then publish her debut novel “Crossing Blood” in 1992 and has since published more than half a dozen works of fiction. In addition to her single-standing novels, she has also published “Pretending the Bed is a Raft,” which would then be adapted into “My Life Without Me,” the film.
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Kincaid, Nanci 1950-
PERSONAL:
Born September 5, 1950, in Tallahassee, FL; daughter of William Henry Pierce (an educator) and Lois (a teacher) Pierce Cannon; married first husband (a football coach; divorced); married Dick Tomey (a football coach), February 14, 1997; children: (first marriage) two daughters. Education: Attended Virginia Tech University and University of Wyoming; Athens State College, B.A., 1987; University of Alabama, M.F.A., 1991. Politics: Democrat. Hobbies and other interests: Travel, public speaking, grandchildren.
ADDRESSES:
Home—Honolulu, HI, and San Jose, CA.
Agent—Betsy Lerner, Dunow, Carlson & Lerner, 27 W. 20th St., Ste. 1007, New York, NY 10011. E-mail—[email protected].
CAREER:
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, creative writing and literature instructor, 1987-91; University of North Carolina, Charlotte, creative writing and literature instructor, 1992-96; University of Arizona, Tucson, instructor of English, 1999—. Panelist at Southern Literary Festival, 1992 and 1997, and Writers Today Conference, 1992; keynote speaker, Eudora Welty Writer's Conference, 1993; visiting writer, Meridian Community College, Meridian, MI, 1994; presenter at North Carolina Writer's Network, 1995, Winthrop College, NC, summer writing progra