Sonya Huber
American essayist
Sonya Huber is an American essayist and writer of memoir and literary nonfiction. She is an associate professor of creative writing at Fairfield University. She is the author of Pain Woman Takes Your Keys and Other Essays from a Nervous System, Cover Me: A Health Insurance Memoir, Opa Nobody, and other books. Huber's essays have appeared in Creative Nonfiction, Brevity, Hotel Amerika, LitHub, The Rumpus, River Teeth, among other literary journals, and in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Chronicle of Higher Education, the Washington Post, and the Washington Post Magazine.
Early life
Sonya Huber was born in 1971 in Evergreen Park, Illinois and grew up in New Lenox, Illinois.
Education
Huber earned a BA at Carleton College in 1993 and a Master of Arts in journalism from the Ohio State University in 2000 through the Kiplinger Fellowship in Public Interest Journalism. She received a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the Ohio State University in 2004.
Career
Huber began teaching writing Fairfield University in Fairfield, Connecticut, in 2011 and as of 2018, was an associate professor there. She formerly taught at Georgia Southern University and Ashland University.
She published Cover Me: A Health Insurance Memoir in 2010, and was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis.
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