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Elizabeth Searle is the author of three books of fiction: My Body to You, which is forthcoming in a new paperback edition; A Four-Sided Bed, a novel nominated for an American Library Association Book Award and Celebrities in Disgrace, which is forthcoming from Bravo Sierra Productions as a short film. Elizabeth teaches at Stonecoast MFA. |

Michael S. Harper has published more than ten books of poetry, most recently Selected Poems (2002). He has received awards from the Guggenheim Foundation and a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Award. He is University Professor and Professor of English at Brown University, where he has taught since 1970. |

Jane Bernstein's fifth book was Rachel in the World (2007). Her awards include two National Endowment Fellowships and a 2004 Fulbright Fellowship spent in Israel. She has published in such places as The New York Times Magazine, Ms., Glamour, Poets & Writers, and Creative Nonfiction. Jane is a professor of English and Creative Writing at Carnegie Mellon University. |

T. Coraghessan Boyle is the author of twenty books of fiction, including, most recently, The Women (2009). He received a Ph.D. degree from the University of Iowa in 1977, his M.F.A. from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1974, and his B.A. in English and History from SUNY Potsdam in 1968. He has been a member of the English Department at the University of Southern California since 1978. |
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José Bechara was born, lives, and works in Rio de Janeiro. The artist´s most significant solo and group exhibitions include those held at the XXV São Paulo International Biennial, Brazil; the Patio Herreriano Spanish Museum of Contemporary Art, in Valladolid, Spain; the Valencian Institute of Modern Art (IVAM), in Valencia, Spain. His works are included in public and private collections in Brazil and abroad. |
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