Degrees:
Ph.D., Tufts Univ.
M.A., Tufts Univ.
M.A., San Francisco State Univ.
B.A., Pomona College
Professor Ferriss's teaching, whether of literature or of creative writing, stems from her experience as a writer, a vocation that is itself a continuous experience of learning from and for literature. Put simply, her goal is to ask and prompt the question: “What is happening here?” Literature and creative writing are not ciphers by which we figure out a message, an adage, or a bit of history; they are dynamic events shaped by writers and readers in a shared imaginative world. |
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Fiction Writing
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Contemporary American Literature
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Narrative Theory
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Native American Literature and Culture
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Literary Adaptation and Appropriation
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Historical Fiction
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Robert Penn Warren
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Narratological Evolution of Contemporary Literature
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Books:
- Ferriss, Lucy. Foreign Climes. Brighthorse Books, July 2021.
- Ferriss, Lucy. A Sister to Honor. Berkley/Penguin, January 2015.
- Ferriss, Lucy. The Lost Daughter. Berkley/Viking, February 2012.
- Ferriss, Lucy. Unveiling the Prophet: The Misadventures of a Reluctant Debutante. University of Missouri Press, Fall 2005.
- Ferriss, Lucy. Nerves of the Heart, a novel. University of Tennessee Press, June 2002.
- Ferriss, Lucy. Leaving the Neighborhood & Other Stories, Minneapolis: Mid-List Press, June 2001.
- Ferriss, Lucy. The Misconceiver, a novel. New York: Simon & Schuster, July 1997.
- Ferriss, Lucy. Sleeping with the Boss: Female Subjectivity and Narrative Pattern in Robert Penn Warren. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 1996.
- Ferriss, Lucy. Against Gravity, a novel. New York: Simon & Schuster, February 1996.
- Ferriss, Lucy. The Gated River, a novel. New York: Franklin Watts, 1986.
- Ferriss, Lucy. Philip’s Girl, a novel. New York: Schocken Books, 1985.
- Stories and essays in Georgia Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Shenandoah, Missouri Review, Southern Review, American Scholar, New England Review, and elsewhere.
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Best American Essays, 2009
- Robert Penn Warren Centennial Prize, Shenandoah, 2005.
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Roanoke Review: First Prize, for “Road Rage,” 2004.
- Nebraska Review first prize for creative nonfiction for “Skinniest Girl,” Winter 2003.
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Phoebe winter fiction contest, finalist for “Minnesota,” Winter 2003.
- Peter Taylor Prize, honorable mention, for That Night at the Café, 2002.
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New Letters short fiction competition, finalist for “Road Rage,” Fall 2002.
- Society for the Short Story Award for “The Rules,” 2000.
- Peter Taylor Prize, honorable mention, for Sympathetic Nerves, 2000.
- Mid-List Award in Short Fiction, 2000.
- Fulbright Fellowship, 1998-99.
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