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Nieman has won several awards, fellowships, and grants, including being a 2013-2014 North Carolina Arts Council poetry fellow, as well as earning a West Virginia Commission on the Arts creative writing grant.  ","This collection includes draft manuscripts of fiction, non-fiction, short stories, and poetry.  Also includes books; photographs; correspondence with fellow writers, publishers, and colleagues; as well as artifacts collected by Nieman.  This collection contains a mixture of both personal and professional material.  The collection also includes audiovisual and born-digital material, described below. Highlights of this collection include a Steno notebook filled with a continuous list of Nieman's accepted and not accepted works from 1975-2015 in Box 11, and personal correspondence with fellow writers Tom Andrews and Jeff Mann (box 1). Other highlights consist of correspondence with poets Timothy Russell and Kevin Rippin, whose crtiques and comments through the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, can be seen on drafts of Nieman's early poetry and helped to pave the way for later works.  Timothy Russell commented on drafts of her earlier works, while Kevin Rippin's comments appear on drafts from the 1990s onward. Letters, critiques, and comments from mentor and poet Fred Chappell can be found as well throughout the collection.","Digital materials include 12 3.5 inch floppy disks and one USB drive. The floppy disks consist of draft manuscripts of books and poetry from 1996-2004 as well as professional writing and projects from that time period. The USB drive contains draft files and promotional materials for  In the Lonely Backwater ,  Leopard Lady: A Life in Verse ,  Fidelities ,  Hotel Worthy ,  Survivors ,  To the Bones , assorted poems and short stories, and unpublished works. 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