Eula Biss (born 1977)[1] is an American non-fiction writer who is the author of four books.

[3] She is a founding editor of Essay Press[4] and a Guggenheim Fellow.

After earning a bachelor's degree in non-fiction writing from Hampshire College, Biss moved to New York City, San Diego, and then Iowa City, where she went on to complete her MFA in the University of Iowa's Nonfiction Writing Program.

Biss taught writing at Northwestern University for fifteen years, from 2006-2021.

[6] Her second book, Notes from No Man's Land, won the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize, and in March 2010, the National Book Critics Circle Award in the criticism category.