The author of several nonfiction books, including Daddy Long Legs, Man Killed by Pheasant and Other Kinships, and Not Just Any Land, John Price received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts as well as the Orion Readers’ Choice Award for Best Book of Nonfiction.  He teaches at the University of Nebraska where is the Director of the Creative Writing program.

“I’ve always admired authors who claim they’ve wanted to be a writer since, well, the moment they were born. I’m not one of them. I didn’t want to become a writer until I took my first nonfiction class at the University of Iowa, and it changed everything. By the time I graduated with an MFA, I had not only studied the craft with some of the finest writing teachers and students on the planet, but I had been taught a love for the beauty and power of the written word that has never left me. Every sentence I’ve written is the gift of the University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program. Period.”