Sonya Huber
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| Born | 1971 (age 53–54) |
Sonya Huber is an American essayist and writer of memoir and literary nonfiction. She is an associate professor of creative writing at Fairfield University.[1] 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.
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.[2][3] She formerly taught at Georgia Southern University and Ashland University.
She published Cover Me: A Health Insurance Memoir in 2010,[4] and was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis.[2] She wrote Pain Woman Takes Your Keys and Other Essays from a Nervous System five years after her symptoms began.[5] In 2011, she published the textbook The Backwards Research Guide for Writers: Using Your Life for Reflection, Connection, and Inspiration.[1] In 2008, after researching archival German records, she published the creative nonfiction book Opa Nobody, about the anti-Nazi activist work of her grandfather.[2][6]
In March 2020, she contracted COVID-19, with months of ongoing symptoms.[7]
She served as guest editor for Experiences of Disability, a special issue of Brevity in September 2020.[8] She is the editor of Dogwood: A Journal of Poetry and Prose and has served as a nonfiction editor for Literary Mama.
Activism
A disability advocate, Huber was one of the creators of the 2017 online Disability March.[9][10] She has been vocal on the topics of disability and for treatment and support for chronic pain patients.[11][12] She served on the Community Leadership Council of the National Pain Advocacy Center.[13] She was active with Jobs with Justice between 1998 and 2004.
