Nicole Stansbury
Nicole Stansbury is an American novelist, short story and essay writer.
Biography
She earned a BA in English and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Utah.Her novel Places to Look for a Mother and her collection of short stories The Husband's Dilemma were published by Carroll & Graf, and her shorter works have appeared in The Threepenny Review, PRISM international, and Yellow Silk.
Stansbury's works concern a range of issues including modern life in the western United States, particularly life in Utah. She has been praised for her insightful and compelling depiction of the life of non-Mormons in Mormon-dominated Utah, and more generally for her keen eye for telling detail. The setting for most of her work is domestic: her first novel concerns a mother-daughter relationship in the midst of a disintegrating family. Her stories include tales of husbands, wives and children navigating the trauma of life in contemporary America, and is sometimes humorous and at other times harrowing.