JULIANNA BAGGOTT, Associate Professor, MFA, University of North Carolina at Greensboro (1994), specializes in fiction. She is the author of sixteen 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. Thirty-one foreign editions of her novels have been published or are forthcoming overseas. Her work has appeared in dozens of publications, including The New York Times, Boston Globe, 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
  • The Pretend Wife (under the pen name Bridget Asher), Bantam/Random House, 2009.
  • My Husband's Sweethearts (under the pen name Bridget Asher), Bantam/Random House, 2008.
  • 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 Ever Breath, Delacorte/Random House, 2009.
  • The Prince of Fenway Park, as N.E. Bode, HarperCollins, 2009.
  • The Amazing Compendium of Edward Magorium, Scholastic, Fall 2007.
  • The Slippery Map, as N.E. Bode, HarperCollins, 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.

• 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.

HONORS AND AWARDS

• The Risley Fellowship, 2007
• 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.