Liza Wieland has published three novels, The Names of the Lost (Southern Methodist University Press, 1992), Bombshell (SMU 2001) and A Watch of Nightingales, two collections of short fiction, Discovering America (Random House 1994) and You Can Sleep While I Drive (SMU 1999), as well as a book of poems, Near Alcatraz (Cherry Grove 2005). Her novel A Watch of Nightingales was this year's winner of the Michigan Literary Fiction Award. She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Christopher Isherwood Foundation and the North Carolina Arts Council, and has won two Pushcart Prizes. She lives in Arapahoe, NC, near Oriental, in Pamlico County.
Liza Wieland has published three novels, The Names of the Lost (Southern Methodist University Press, 1992), Bombshell (SMU 2001) and A Watch of Nightingales, two collections of short fiction, Discovering America (Random House 1994) and You Can Sleep While I Drive (SMU 1999), as well as a book of poems, Near Alcatraz (Cherry Grove 2005). Her novel A Watch of Nightingales was this year's winner of the Michigan Literary Fiction Award. She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Christopher Isherwood Foundation and the North Carolina Arts Council, and has won two Pushcart Prizes. She lives in Arapahoe, NC, near Oriental, in Pamlico County.