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NANCY ZAFRIS

Fiction Editor

  
 

 
     
   

 

Nancy Zafris has been the fiction editor of The Kenyon Review since the fall of 1998. Her latest novel, Lucky Strike, was published in 2005 and will be out in paperback in the spring of 2006. Her previous books are The Metal Shredders, a New York Times notable book of the year, and The People I Know, winner of the Flannery O’Connor award for short fiction. She has twice been the recipient of a National Endowment of the Arts grant, including a 2006 grant for an excerpt from Lucky Strike. Her short stories have appeared in several literary magazines, including The Kenyon Review before she became its fiction editor. Nancy lives in Columbus, Ohio with her husband Jim and son Sam.

For other information and reviews of Nancy Zafris’s books, visit her web site.

 
    BOOKS BY NANCY ZAFRIS  
LUCKY STRIKE
Unbridled Books, 2005, 352 p.

"What a wild ride this book is. The characters are plucky, sympathetic, and memorable, the situations sometimes laugh-out-loud funny and sometimes bittersweet, and the pacing just right. Zafris is a keen observer of the human comedy."
– Library Journal, starred review

“… this novel is both disturbing and hypnotic."
– Booklist, starred review

THE METAL SHREDDERS
Blue Hen, 2002, 320 p.

““A sometimes zany, sometimes touching odyssey…Zafris’s debut is full of the sweat of real labor and the sinews of class guilt.”
— The Christian Science Monitor
THE PEOPLE I KNOW
Univ. of Georgia Press, 1990, 176 pp.

“A lively, entertaining, and often unexpectedly moving collection.”
— The New York Times
 

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