JULIANNA BAGGOTT, Assistant Professor, MFA, University of North Carolina at Greensboro (1994), specializes in fiction. She is the author of fourteen books—published and forthcoming—including national bestseller Girl Talk and Which Brings Me to You (co-written with Steve Almond); three books of poems, and seven novels for young readers, most notably The Anybodies trilogy, under the pen name N.E. Bode. Twelve editions of her novels have been published overseas. Her work has appeared in dozens of publications, including Best American Poetry 2000, 180 More Extraordinary Poems for Everyday (ed. Billy Collins), The Southern Review, TriQuarterly, Virginia Quarterly Review, Poetry, Glamour, Ms. Magazine, and read on NPR's Talk of the Nation.

BOOKS

• Novels for Adults
  • Which Brings Me To You: A Novel in Confessions (in collaboration with Steve Almond), Algonquin, 2006.
  • The Madam , Atria Books, Simon and Schuster, 2003.
  • The Miss America Family, Pocket Books, Simon and Schuster, 2002.
  • Girl Talk, Pocket Books, Simon Schuster, 2001.

• Novels for Younger Readers
  • The Amazing Compendium of Edward Magorium, Scholastic, fall 2007.
  • The Somebodies, as N.E. Bode, HarperCollins, 2006.
  • The Nobodies, as N.E. Bode, HarperCollins, 2005.
  • The Anybodies, as N.E. Bode, HarperCollins, 2004.
  • The Amazing Compendium of Edward Magorium, as N.E. Bode, forthcoming, Scholastic, 2007.
  • The Slippery Map, as N.E. Bode, forthcoming, HarperCollins, 2007.
  • The Prince of Fenway Park, as N.E. Bode, forthcoming, HarperCollins, 2009.
  • Turnskin: A Modern Suburban Fairytale, as N.E. Bode, forthcoming, HarperCollins, 2010.

• Collections of Poetry
  • Compulsions of Silkworms and Bees, Pleiades Press and Louisiana State University Press, 2007.
  • Lizzie Borden in Love, Southern Illinois University Press, 2006.
  • This Country of Mothers, Southern Illinois University Press, 2001.

ANTHOLOGIES

• "The Handgun of Idle Attractiveness: An Essay with Requisite Humor," (Teen: When I Was a Loser), Free Press (Simon and Schuster), 2007.
• "On Desire and Children and Fear: A conversation between husband and wife," co-written with David G.W. Scott, About What Was Lost, (an anthology of essays about miscarriage), 2006.
• "Homesick for the Place You've Never Been," (an essay), It's A Wonderful Lie: Truth About Life in Your Twenties, Warner Books, 2007.
• "Girl Child X," (a short story), Before Pregnancy: Stories from Our Top Writers (including work by Ann Packer, Tom Perrotta, Amy Bloom, Charles Baxter), Overlook Press, spring 2006.
• "Direct Address: Dear Reader," Poetry Calendar 2006 (alongside Robert Pinsky, Rita Dove, Paul Muldoon, Billy Collins, William Shakespeare, John Donne), English, Alhambra Publishing, 2006.
• "Soul #1," (a collaborative poem written with Norman Minnick), Saints of Hysteria: A Half-Century of Collaborative American Poetry, edited by Maureen Seaton, David Trinidad, and Denise Duhamel, Soft Skull Press, winter 2005-06.
• "Blurbs," (a poem) 180 More Extraordinary Poems for the Every Day, edited by Billy Collins, Random House, spring 2005.
• "Kitchens: 1959" and "Poetry Despises Your Attempts at Domesticity," (poems), Sweeping Beauty: Contemporary Women Poets Do Housework, University of Iowa Press, fall 2005.
• "Mary Rockwell, 1950," (a poem), Red, White and Blues, University of Iowa Press, summer 04.
• "Dr. Ishida Explains his Case," (a short story), Behind the Short Story: from first to final draft, Longman, forthcoming.
• "In Translation," (an essay), Sex and Sensibility, Atria Books, winter 2005.
• "The Future Lives of Emily Milty," (a short story), Sixteen, Crown, Summer 2004.
• "Five," (a short story), American Girls About Town, Simon and Schuster, summer 2004.
• "An Essay on Turning Thirty," The May Queen, Penguin Putnam, forthcoming.
• "The Bodies of Boys," (a short story), Lit Riffs, (an anthology of short stories based on rock and roll songs), MTV Books, spring 04.

HONORS AND AWARDS

• Listed on Best Books of 2006, Kirkus Reviews
• Winner of the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Award, Pleiades Press, 2006-07.
• The Year's Top Books, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 2004.
• The Balch Award in Poetry, The Virginia Quarterly Review, 2001-02.
• Best American Poetry 2000.
• Crab Orchard Award Series, 2000.
• Scholarship from Bread Loaf's Writers' Conference, 2000.
• Established Artist Fellowship, Poetry, Delaware Division of the Arts, 2000.