NANCY HUDDLESTON PACKER
Nancy
Huddleston Packer grew up in Birmingham, Alabama. She was a Wallace Stegner
Fellow in the Creative Writing Program at Stanford University, after which she
became a Professor of English. When she retired from Stanford in 1993 she had
been Director of the Creative Writing Progam for four years.
Packer's stories have appeared in numerous journals, including Harper's, Kenyon Review, Yale Review, Southwest Review, Virginia Quarterly, Southern Review, Epoch, and Sewanee Review. Her stories have won O. Henry Awards and have been anthologized in Best American Short Stories.