Professional Summary
After obtaining her BA from Mary Washington University, Nicola Masn worked at McGraw-Hill in New York City, then entered the MFA program at Louisiana State University, where she was a GA at The Southern Review and a freelance copyeditor at LSU Press. She went on to become Assistant Editor at The Southern Review and then Editor at LSU Press before moving to Cincinnati and helping to establish The Cincinnati Review (as its Managing Editor) in 2003. In 2017 she established Acre Books, the small-press offshoot of the journal.
Research Support
2000 National Endowment for the Arts Type:Fellowship
Grant: #14-5200-7041 Investigators:Mason, Nicola 01-01-2014 -12-31-2015 National Endowment for the Arts 10th Anniversary Readership Outreach Role:PI $10,000.00 Awarded Level:Federal
Abbreviated Publications
Other Publication
"The Rock Garden." Southern Exposure (1997).
"The Lizard Man of Lee County." New England Review (1998).
"About Breakfast." Shenandoah (1998).
"Whammy." Missouri Review (1998).
"Freaks Like Us." Chelsea (2001).
"Leeza Morbid." 64 (2000).
"The Whimsied World." Epoch (2000).
"The Whimsied World." New Stories from the South: The Year’s Best (2001).
"The Bad Seed." The Oxford American (2000).
"The Bad Seed." Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses, XXV1 (2002).
"Life with Ham." Online Writing: The Best of the First Ten Years (2008).
"Cancer Party." Blackbird (2010).
"Cancer Party." Million Writers Award: The Best New Online Voices (2012).
"The Bad Seed." Love Stories for Turbulent Times: Loving Through the Apocalypse (2018).