Sally Shivnan ~ Fiction ~ Essays ~ Travel <home> Welcome!                                                     Scroll down this page for bio and contact information ~go to <writing> to read excerpts of my published work ~go to <links> to see more published work, as well as great websites about writers and writing, with lots of information and resources ~go to <photos> to see travel photography ~go to <news&etc> to read about upcoming readings and workshops, and other miscellany ~go to <tips&advice> for helpful stuff of one sort or another, from travel writing tips to grammar and punctuation cheat-sheets, to advice for balancing writing and teaching Here's my bio: My travel writing has appeared in The Washington Post, Miami Herald, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Baltimore Sun and other newspapers, and I've written for magazines including Washingtonian, The Nature Conservancy Magazine, Maryland Life, and Hemispheres.  My travel essays have also been featured in The Best American Travel Writing 2006 and Travelers’ Tales Best Travel Writing 2005, and my work was included in The Best American Travel Writing 2008's listing of Notable Travel Writing for 2008.  My fiction and essays have been published in journals including The Georgia Review, Antioch Review, Glimmer Train, and Rosebud, and in The Silver Rose Anthology.  I've also written for websites including the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy site, rails-to-trails.org, and Visit Baltimore's site, baltimore.org. I have won a number of awards for my work, including a 2004 Book Passage Travel Essay Contest prize, a 2004 Maryland State Arts Council grant, and a Silver Rose Award from the ART Foundation in 2002.  In summer 2006 I was writer-in-residence at KHN Center for the Arts in  Nebraska City, Nebraska.  In summer 2008 I had a position as a volunteer in the Florida state park system, which let me continue research in the Florida panhandle, the setting for the historical novel I am currently working on.  I have an MFA in fiction from George Mason University, and am a senior lecturer in creative writing at University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), where I am director of the English Department's Writing and Rhetoric Division.  To reach me, send email to shivnan@umbc.edu [NOTE: All work on this site is protected by copyright.  Contact me for permission to reproduce any material not allowable under fair use.] If you are the owner of this site: You can start editing your web site by clicking here. Forgot your zoomshare username or password? Get it here.