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Dr. Lisa Knopp

  • English, Professor

email:
lknopp@unomaha.edu
office:
ASH  204A
department phone:
402.554.2635
personal website:
https://www.lisknopp.com

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General Information

Additional Contact Information

lknopp@unomaha.edu

Biography

Lisa Knopp is the author of seven books of creative nonfiction. Her most recently published book, From Your Friend, Carey Dean: Letters from Nebraska’s Death Row (Cascade Books 2022), tells the story of the remarkable, platonic, 23-year friendship between Carey Dean Moore, a double murderer who the state of Nebraska executed in 2018 and her. In addition to the story of this friendship, the book tells two other stories, as well. One is that of a broken correctional system and what it’s like to be incarcerated there, which Moore frequently spoke and wrote about. The other is the story of how a double murderer was transformed and nourished by his Christian faith. See Lisa's website for more information about this and her other books. www.lisaknopp.com Lisa's most recent writing project, Ravellings: Essays on Love, Loss, and Wonder, is under review at a university press. Essays in that collection have been published in such journals as Brevity, Gettysburg Review, Georgia Review, Blood Orange Review, Ascent, Hospital Drive, West Branch, and Seneca Review. Seven of Lisa's essays have received notable essay citations in the Best American Essays series. She is the recipient of two Nebraska Arts Council fellowships and three Nebraska Book Awards, including one for From Your Friend, Carey Dean.

Teaching Interests

creative nonfiction

Research Interests

Autobiographical essays, memoir, literary journalism, experimental forms of creative nonfiction.

Awards and Honors

Nebraska Book Award, Scholarship/Research - 2023

2020 Curt Johnson Prose Awards (first prize), Scholarship/Research - 2020

River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Book Conest, Scholarship/Research - 2020

Pushcart Nomination, Scholarship/Research - 2020

Shortlist for 2021 One Book One Nebraska , Scholarship/Research - 2020

Missouri Review’s 2018 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize contest, Scholarship/Research - 2019

"Leaving" Writing Contest, Scholarship/Research - 2018

Education

Ph D, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, English, Creative nonfiction and American Literature., 1993

Scholarship/Research/Creative Activity

Selected Publications

Knopp, Lisa. 2016. Bread: A Memoir of Hunger, University of Missouri Press, 173.

Knopp, Lisa. 2012. What the River Carries: Encounters with the Mississippi, Missouri, and Platte, University of Missouri Press, 978-0-8262-1974-9, 230.

Knopp, Lisa. 2008. Interior Places, University of Nebraska Press, 978-0-0032-1143-8, 289.

Knopp, Lisa. 2002. The Nature of Home, University of Nebraska Press, 231.

Knopp, Lisa. 1996. Field of Vision, University of Iowa Press.

Service

Department, College, and University

ADWR/CNF concentration program/track committee, Attendee, Meeting, 01/01/2018 - 01/31/2018

Additional Information

Lisa Knopp is the author of six books of creative nonfiction. Her most recent, Bread: A Memoir of Hunger, explores eating disorders and disordered eating among older women.

What the River Carries: Encounters with the Mississippi, Misouri, and Platte won the 2013 Nebraska Book Award in the essay category and tied for second place in the 2013 ALSE (Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment) book awards for environmental creative nonfiction. Currently, she's working on a collection of autobiographical essays, Like Salt or Love: Essays on Leaving Home.

Knopp's essays have appeared in numerous journals including Seneca Review, Missouri Review, Michigan Review, Iowa Review, Southern Indiana Review, Gettysburg Review, Northwest Review, Crab Orchard Review, Shenandoah, Creative Nonfiction, Prairie Schooner, Brevity, and Georgia Review. Seven of her essays have been listed as “notable essays” in the Best American Essays series (1990, 1994, 2001, 2002, 2008, 2010, and 2014).

Knopp joined the UNO Department of English in 2005. Prior to that, she taught in the Masters of Fine Arts programs at the University of Southern Illinois-Carbondale and at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland.

For more information, please go to her website www.lisaknopp.com.

This professor is available for consultation regarding Sustainability topics.

Additional Information

Lisa Knopp is the author of six books of creative nonfiction. Her most recent, Bread: A Memoir of Hunger, explores eating disorders and disordered eating among older women.

What the River Carries: Encounters with the Mississippi, Misouri, and Platte won the 2013 Nebraska Book Award in the essay category and tied for second place in the 2013 ALSE (Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment) book awards for environmental creative nonfiction. Currently, she's working on a collection of autobiographical essays, Like Salt or Love: Essays on Leaving Home.

Knopp's essays have appeared in numerous journals including Seneca Review, Missouri Review, Michigan Review, Iowa Review, Southern Indiana Review, Gettysburg Review, Northwest Review, Crab Orchard Review, Shenandoah, Creative Nonfiction, Prairie Schooner, Brevity, and Georgia Review. Seven of her essays have been listed as “notable essays” in the Best American Essays series (1990, 1994, 2001, 2002, 2008, 2010, and 2014).

Knopp joined the UNO Department of English in 2005. Prior to that, she taught in the Masters of Fine Arts programs at the University of Southern Illinois-Carbondale and at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland.

For more information, please go to her website www.lisaknopp.com.

This professor is available for consultation regarding Sustainability topics.

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