Biography

Nina King Sannes is a writer from the Great Dismal Swamp of North Carolina. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in agroecology from Cornell University and an MFA in fiction from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she served as assistant editor for Ninth Letter literary magazine. Her work aims to carry on and to reimagine the Southern Gothic tradition, investing in stories that examine isolation, marginalization, violence, and a rooted sense of place. She is a winner and three-time nominee for the AWP Intro Journals Award for both fiction and nonfiction, and her work has previously appeared in EPOCH magazine and the Colorado Review. Her master’s thesis, a novel entitled The Women of Devil’s Acre, is a work of speculative climate fiction focusing on the intertwined violences on ecology and the body, and an experiment on the blending of the craft elements of setting and character – the swamp as agential force. Outside of class, she does part-time film photography and plays bass in a slowcore band.