Nan Hanway

Writer, Amateur Assassin, and Ghost Hunter.

Nan Hanway is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her work has appeared in The Florida Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Willow Review, Washington Square, Southern Indiana Review, and in many other journals. She taught Latin American literature and culture at Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnesota before leaving academia and moving to Fayetteville, Arkansas, where she writes full-time and researches the best methods for committing various crimes.

Welcome to my site:

Dear Reader: As a former academic, I believe in doing research. And In order to study jewelry theft, I asked my kid to help me case jewelry stores, acting out scenes from the novel. Over the years, we also discussed how to murder people. We’ve never committed any crimes, mind you, but Griffin (now an adult) has pointed out that this is not an approved parenting technique.

Other facts: I’m married to my high school sweetheart, Cecil. He’s a lawyer and gives great advice for writing. However, watching legal dramas with him is like watching medical dramas with a doctor. (Note: The legal process that takes place in two minutes in Suits might take months in real life.) For many years we lived with an extremely opinionated corgi who ran the household with the strength of her personality and the fuzziness of her big ears. She’s gone but I’m convinced her ghosts still patrols the front windows. And finally, although I’m landlocked here in the Ozarks, I spend as much as time as possible on a sailboat on Lake Superior—my dream is to live on the boat someday.