Liza Wieland
Liza is the author of ten books, multiple stories and essays, and is a Distinguished Professor of English Emerita at East Carolina University.
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Liza has published six novels, three short story collections, and a volume of poems. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Christopher Isherwood Foundation, and the North Carolina Arts Council. She is the 2017 winner of the Robert Penn Warren Prize from the Fellowship of Southern Writers. Her novel, A Watch of Nightingales, won the 2008 Michigan Literary Fiction Award. She has received a Pushcart Prize twice; other honors include a finalist for the Lascaux Fiction Prize and the ForeWord Book of the Year Prize. O, the Oprah Magazine named Paris, 7 A.M. one of The Best Books by Women of Summer 2019.
Liza retired in 2021 as the Distinguished Professor of English at East Carolina University, for which she received a Lifetime Achievement Award in Research and Creative Activity. Liza was awarded a residency in the UNESCO Creative City of Literature in Prague in 2025. When not traveling the world, she spends her time in Eastern North Carolina with her husband.
ECU
“Writing Her Story” from East Carolina University News Services
“Wieland’s push toward more than the ordinary is one of the reasons the author of nine books, including a book of poetry and three short story collections, was named the recipient of ECU’s Lifetime Achievement for Research & Creative Activity Award.”
Publisher’s Weekly
Interview with Suzanne Fox about Paris 7 A.M.
“In the open space created by that silence, as well as the linkage of Bishop and de Chambrun, what became Paris, 7 A.M. gradually found its form.”
NPR
“The State of Things” (WUNC) interviews Liza about Land of Enchantment.
“The novel traces the experiences of three multiracial women in three different parts of the country. The characters share common themes around love, loss, racial identity and art.”