Nan Hanway is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her work has appeared in The Florida Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Willow Review, Washington Square, Southern Indiana Review, and in many other journals. She taught Latin American literature and culture at Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnesota before leaving academia and moving to Fayetteville, Arkansas, where she writes full-time.
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Other facts: As a former academic, I believe in doing research. In order to study jewelry theft, I asked my kid to help me case the Cartier store in Chicago, acting out scenes from my novel. Over the years, we’ve also discussed the best ways to murder people. Griffin has pointed out that this is not an approved parenting technique, but they’re a fabulous human being, so who knows? My husband Cecil is a lawyer and gives great advice for writing. However, watching legal dramas with him is like watching medical dramas with a doctor. (Spoiler alert: a legal process that takes place in two minutes in Suits might take months in real life.) For many years we lived with an opinionated corgi who ran the household with the strength of her personality and the fuzziness of her big ears. She’s gone but I’m convinced her ghost still patrols the front windows.
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