Nancy Owens Nelson has published a new poetry book entitled Five Points South: Poems from an Alabama Pilgrimage (Kelsay Books, 2023). Nancy has served on the Board of the Michigan College English Association for decades, and she also taught English courses at Henry Ford College in Dearborn, Michigan.
For information about purchasing Five Points South and her other books, please visit Nancy’s website at https://www.nancyowennelson.com
Her other books include the memoir Divine Aphasia: A Woman’s Search for Her Father (2021) and Portals: A Memoir in Verse (Kelsay Books, 2019).
Nanc Owens Nelson has edited and co-edited several academic books, including The Selected Letters of Frederick Manfred: 1932–1954 (with Arthur R. Huseboe) and Private Voices, Public Lives: Women Speak on the Literary Life. She has published critical essays in journals such as The South Dakota Review and Western American Literature, as well as creative nonfiction and poetry in several journals and anthologies. Her memoir, Searching for Nannie B: Connecting Three Generations of Southern Women, was published in 2015, and her poetry chapbook, My Heart Wears No Colors, was published in 2018.