![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Biss was described in The New York Times as "a poet, essayist and a class spy.believer and apostate, moth and flame." This event will be held in person at Hunter College. She lives a mile from Lake Michigan, where she swims in sun and shadow. This article analyses the literary representation of pain scales and assessment in two chronic pain narratives: ‘The Pain Scale’, a lyric essay by Eula Biss, and essays from Sonya Huber’s collection Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System. She is a founding editor of Essay Press and a member of the Penny Collective. ![]() She currently teaches nonfiction for the Bennington Writing Seminars. She developed a commitment to progressive education at Hampshire College, where she studied creative writing and visual art before earning an MFA in nonfiction writing from the University of Iowa. For the past twenty years, Biss has taught writing in large lecture halls and small community bookstores, at public elementary schools and private universities. As a 2023 National Fellow at New America, she is at work on a collection of essays about how private property has shaped our world. Her work has been translated into a dozen languages and has been recognized by a National Book Critics Circle Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a 21st Century Award from the Chicago Public Library. Eula Biss is the author of four books: Having and Being Had (2020), On Immunity (2014), Notes from No Man's Land (2009), and The Balloonists (2002). ![]()
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