Creative Writing Publications


Books






Anthologies


The Spirit of Food: 34 Writers on Feasting and Fasting Toward God
Cascade Books, 2010
Edited by Leslie Leyland Fields
Includes my essay "Things that Fall and Things that Stand"

Becoming: What Makes a Woman
University of Nebraska, 2012
Edited by Jill McCabe Johnson
Includes my essay "Ontology"


Online


Three-Part Harmony
A short piece on the creative process.


Essays


Still in French Airspace
Under The Sun, 2012
Nominated for Pushcart Prize

Woman on Michigan Avenue
Saint Katherine Review 2011, volume 2, number 3
"Notable Mention" in Best Spiritual Writing 2012

Metrics
Indiana Review, Winter 2011-12
"Notable Mention" in Best American Essays 2011
Nominated for a Pushcart Prize

Spinning and Being Spun
Comment, September 2010
"Notable Mention" in Best Spiritual Writing 2011

Things That Fall and Things That Stand
The Spirit of Food: 34 Writers on Feasting and Fasting Toward God, edited by Leslie Leyland Fields (Cascade Books, 2010)

Ontology
Harpur Palate, summer 2009
Becoming: What Makes a Woman (University of Nebraska Gender Programs, 2012)
"Notable mention" in Best American Essays 2010

Additional Essays
"Prelude," Lake Effect, Winter 2012, volume 16

"Woman on Michigan Avenue," Saint Katherine Review 2011, volume 2, number 3 (Editors, Scott Cairn, Kathleen Norris)
"Notable mention" in Best Spiritual Writing 2013

A Place at the Table
Relief, Volume 3 Issue 1
Nominated for a Pushcart Prize

"Nothing Can Separate", Relief, volume 1, number 1

"Waves and Oscillations", Desert Call, Fall 2008


© 2003–2013. All rights reserved. Nancy J. Nordenson.

Aiming for the intersections of thought, beauty, and faith in everyday life and work.



"In a time lacking in truth and certainty and filled with anguish and despair, no woman should be shamefaced in attempting to give back to the world, through her work, a portion of its lost heart."
–Louise A. Bogan


"Fear less, hope more, eat less, chew more, whine less, breathe more, talk less, say more, love more, and all good things will be yours."
–Swedish Proverb


Selected Creative Works

Books
Anthologies
Includes my essay "Things that Fall and Things that Stand"
Includes my essay "Ontology"
Online
Essays
Under The Sun, 2012
Saint Katherine Review 2011, volume 2, number 3
"Notable Mention" in Best Spiritual Writing 2012
Indiana Review, Volume 33, Number 2, Winter 2011-12
"Notable Mention" in Best American Essays 2011
Comment Magazine, September 2010 "Notable Mention" in Best Spiritual Writing 2011
Anthology selection, Fall 2010
Harpur Palate, Summer 2009 "Notable mention" in Best American Essays 2010
A list of additional works
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