Eula Biss

Eula Biss is the author of four books, most recently Having and Being Had (Riverhead Books, 2020), which Alexander Chee described as “a brilliant, lacerating re-examination of our relationship to what we own and why, and who in turn might own us.” On Immunity: An Inoculation (Graywolf Press, 2014) was a New York Times bestseller and Notes from No Man’s Land (Graywolf Press, 2009) received the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. The first draft of her first book, The Balloonists (Hanging Loose Press, 2002), was her thesis at Hampshire College, where she developed a commitment to progressive education. 

For the past twenty years, Biss has taught writing in large lecture halls and small community bookstores, at public elementary schools and private universities. Her work has been translated into a dozen languages and has been recognized by a Guggenheim Fellowship, an NEA Fellowship, and a New America Fellowship. Biss is a founding editor of Essay Press and a member of the Penny Collective. She is currently at work on a collection of essays about how private property has shaped our world.