Nani power biography

PERSONAL:

Female; children: two. Education: Attended Bennington College, Corcoran Art School, L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts Americaines (France), and Georgetown University.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Lives in The Plains, VA.

Agent—c/o Wendy Sherman, Wendy Sherman Associates, Inc., 450 Seventh Ave., Suite 3004, New York, NY 10123-0073.

CAREER:

Writer. Worked variously as a caterer, nanny, nursing home aide, sandwich seller, and chef.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, Los Angeles Times, 2002, for Crawling at Night.

WRITINGS:

Crawling at Night, Atlantic Monthly Press (New York, NY), 2001.

The Good Remains, Grove Press (New York, NY), 2002.

Contributor to Salon.com.

SIDELIGHTS:

Nani Power was a fine-arts major who worked at a number of unrelated jobs before taking a writing course that inspired her to write her first novel, Crawling at Night. Power's previous experience as a chef in a Japanese restaurant served her well, as one