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| is a professor of English in the Minnesota State University system. His 2006 book of poems, Logorrhea (Northwestern University Press), was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Recently, he edited Shedding Skins: Four Sioux Poets (Michigan State University Press, 2008). |
| In the winter of 1984-85, big changes began for , whose birth name is Michael S. Weaver. He had been working in factories and writing since 1970. In January, he received an NEA fellowship in poetry. He was also accepted into Brown’s writing program that spring. In July his first book, Water Song, was published. He became an academic. At Rutgers he received tenure in 1995, and he has taught at Simmons since 1998, the year he received a Pew fellowship in poetry. His tenth and newest book of poetry is The Plum Flower Dance, published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. Afaa lives in Somerville, Massachusetts. |
| poetry and short-shorts have appeared or are forthcoming online in Kaleidowhirl, The Hiss Quarterly, Triplopia Review, Poetry Midwest and Opium Magazine, and in print in Margie, Rhino, caesura, The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, The Eleventh Muse, Periphery: A Magical Realist Zine, The Binnacle, and the anthology, New Harvest: Jewish Writing in St. Louis 1998-2005. She has received two Pushcart nominations and one nomination for the Best of the Net anthology. She received an M.F.A. from the University of Missouri – St. Louis in 2007 and is working on a novel. |
| lives in Indianapolis and teaches at Ball State University. His work has been published in Esquire, The Cincinnati Review, Mid-American Review, The Writer's Chronicle, and Glimmer Train Stories. He is the co-editor of Freight Stories (www.freightstories.com), an online fiction quarterly, and author of Modern Love, a short story chapbook. His website can be found online at: www.andrewscottonline.com. |
| fourth book of poems, All-Night Lingo Tango (2009), was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. Her third book of poems, Babel, was chosen by Stephen Dunn to win the 2003 Associated Writing Programs Donald Hall Prize for Poetry and was also published by Pittsburgh. Hamby received a fellowship in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1996. She has also received three fellowships from the Florida Arts Council. Her work has appeared in many national publications. She is Writer-in-Residence in the Creative Writing Program at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida. |
is the author of eight collections of poetry, all published by Wesleyan University Press, the most recent of which are Cascadia (2001) and Pieces of Air in the Epic (2005), which received the William Carlos Williams Prize for Poetry, and Practical Water (forthcoming 2009). She has also published three chapbooks. With Patricia Dienstfrey, she edited The Grand Permission: New Writings on Poetics and Motherhood (Wesleyan, 2003). Hillman teaches at St. Mary's College where she is the Olivia Filippi Professor of Poetry and works with CodePink, a social justice group against war. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. |
| is the author of four works of fiction--most recently the novel An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England, which was a national bestseller, a Book Sense #1 Pick, a Borders Original Voices Book and a American Library Assocation Book of the Year. His stories and essays have appeared in the New York Times, The Believer, One Story, New England Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Georgia Review, Southern Review, and on NPR's Selected Shorts, as well as in the New Stories from the South and Pushcart Prize annual anthologies. He was a 2008 NEA fellow, and teaches at the University of Cincinnati. |
| David Baker was born in 1954 in Maine and grew up in Missouri. He received degrees from Central Missouri State University and University of Utah and has taught at Kenyon College, Ohio State University, and the University of Michigan. Currently he holds the Thomas Fordham Chair of Poetry at Denison University, in Granville, Ohio, and serves as Poetry Editor of The Kenyon Review . He teaches also in Warren Wilson's MFA program. Baker's twelve books include Never-Ending Birds, (poems, Norton, 2009), Radiant Lyre: Essays on Lyric Poetry (2007, Graywolf), and Midwest Eclogue (poems, 2005, Norton). Baker has received honors from the Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Poetry Society of America, Society of Midland Authors, and others. |
| is the author of Deep River: A Memoir of a Missouri Farm, Ossabaw, a volume of poems, and numerous uncollected poems and essays. He is also one of several editors of a well known college reader: Fields of Reading: Motives for Writing, soon in its 9th edition. For most of his career at the University of Iowa, he has edited The Iowa Review. He teaches literature and writing and has directed Iowa’s MFA program in literary nonfiction. |
| is a Harper Fellow at The University of Chicago where she teaches in the Humanities Collegiate Division. Her most recent essays appear in Pleiades, Southern Humanities Review, and Lake Effect. Desirae finished her Ph.D. in creative nonfiction at Ohio University in 2004, and is a contributing editor for Quotidiana, the online anthology of the essay found at http://essays.quotidiana.org/ |
| new collection is Present Vanishing: Poems (Sarabande Books, October, 2008). Sarabande also published his The Day Before: Poems and Ode to the Cold War: Poems New and Selected. He's received NEA and Ingram Merrill Poetry Writing Fellowships, a Pushcart Prize, and publication in five editions of The Year's Best American Poetry. Allen's earlier recent poems have appeared in or are forthcoming in Boulevard, American Scholar, Ploughshares, Hudson Review, Atlantic Monthly. Yearly, he and his wife drive about 10,000 miles around America, searching for poems and great cheap Chinese food. They live near a small Zen lake in Connecticut. |
| was a Dallas psychologist and the first "Drug Czar" for Dallas appointed by the Mayor. Earlier she lived in London and Paris where she married a Greek. Since retirement she has written 12 books, three about the assassination of President Kennedy with which she was closely associated, having worked at Parkland Hospital. She has spoken on television, radio, and elsewhere about Lee Harvey Oswald, Jack Ruby, psychology and other subjects |
| memoir Between Panic & Desire (University of Nebraska) was winner of the Grub Street Nonfiction Book Prize in 2009. His other books include The Accidental Buddhist, Toothpick Men, The Emperor’s Virtual Clothes, and the writing guide, The Truth of the Matter: Art and Craft in Creative Nonfiction. He has published essays and stories in The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, Harpers, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Gettysburg Review, Utne Reader, and Crazyhorse, and teaches in the creative nonfiction MA and PhD program at Ohio University. |
| is the author of four books of nonfiction: The Untouched Minutes (winner of the River Teeth Nonfiction Prize), Sounding for Cool, A Stranger's Neighborhood and The Impetuous Sleeper (forthcoming), as well as two volumes of poetry, At the Bottom of the Sky and With Your Back to Half the Day. He has taught at Jilin University, Peoples' Republic of China, and has been a Fulbright Lecturer at the University of Lodz, Poland, as well as the Bedell Visiting Writer in the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa. Currently, he is an editor of Tampa Review and Interim Dean of the College of Arts and Letters at the University of Tampa. |
| Edith Pearlman's fiction has appeared three times in Best American Short Stories, three times in the O. Henry Prize Collection, twice in the Pushcart Prize Collection, and once in Best Short Stories from the South. She is the author of three story collections: Vaquita (1996), Love Among The Greats (2002), and How To Fall (2005). |
| is an actor and writer living in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where she teaches at Grand Valley State University. Her essays have appeared in Creative Nonfiction, Slate, and Ninth Letter, among other publications. More work is forthcoming in The Iowa Review and in an anthology of pieces from the EMP POP Conference, published by Duke University Press. A 2008 graduate of the University of Iowa's Nonfiction Writing Program, Elena lives a few blocks from the Grand River with her three-legged cat and her two-legged boyfriend. |
| Elena Willis graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Concordia University in 2003. Through dreams, Elena finds her inspiration. She contemplates and deciphers the world that exists behind our sleeping eyes, giving rich pictorial meanings to imagery that is often dismissed as irrational and incomprehensible. Elena thoroughly and exhaustively works on every detail of her photographs to ensure a truthful and accurate recreation of a dream. She has been awarded grants by the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, The Du Maurier Arts Council, and most recently the Canada Council for the Arts. Her work has been exhibited in Canada, the United States and in France and is part of collections in Canada and the United States. |
| grew up in San Francisco and moved to Phoenix in 2006. She is the recipient of a 2008 Arizona Commission on the Arts Project Grant to support her work making portraits of resettled refugees in Phoenix. Thanks to a public art commission from the City of Phoenix, she currently has a photograph on display at the bus stop installation at 7th Avenue and Glenrosa, and last spring she was honored by a Contemporary Forum Artist Grant Award. She joined the eye lounge gallery and artists' cooperative in 2007, and has served as the cooperative's co-president since 2008. Her portraits of resettled refugee families will go on display at the Phoenix Historical Society on April 16th. Her next show of new work, Refugee Status at School, will open April 17th at the eye lounge and run through the second weekend May. |
| received her Ph.D. in Classical Studies from the The Johns Hopkins University. Her work has appeared in Fiction, Salon, Creative Nonfiction, in the anthologies The Anatomy of Baseball and The City as Comedy, and other publications. She has taught at the University of Virginia, the University of Missouri, and Wesleyan University. "The Myth of the Moon" is an excerpt from a memoir in progress. |
| 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. Her most recent work is Tonya & Nancy: A Rock Opera, a musical based on the Kerrigan/Harding skating scandal. The show has drawn national media attention on Good Morning America, CNN, Fox, NPR and in a new documentary film. New rock opera productions are in the works. Elizabeth teaches at Stonecoast MFA. |
| is the author of five books, most recently the novel The Seamstress of Hollywood Boulevard. Her stories and articles have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, STORY, The Southern Review, Allure, The Georgia Review, and many other journals and magazines. Married to the poet Andrew Hudgins, she teaches at The Ohio State University |
| Eugene Gloria is the author of two books of poems—Hoodlum Birds (Penguin, 2006) and Drivers at the Short-Time Motel (Penguin, 2000), which was selected for the 1999 National Poetry Series and the 2001 Asian American Literary Award. His other awards include a Pushcart Prize and recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in the Indiana Review, Crab Orchard Review, Louisville Review, The Normal School, and The New Republic. He teaches creative writing and literature at DePauw University and lives in Greencastle, Indiana. |
| was born and raised in Bodø, Norway. She received a BFA in painting from University of South Dakota in 1983, and a MFA in painting from Montana State University in 1986. Since then she has lived and worked full time as an artist in Seattle, WA.Her work is represented by Foster White Gallery in Seattle, where her 5th solo exhibition is scheduled for October 2009. Her work is also represented by Duane Reed Gallery in St. Louis, MO. Eva has had numerous exhibitions both nationally and internationally. Her work is in several private and public collections. She recently completed a large public commission at Nordland Regional Hospital, where she created a 18' x 8' ceiling piece for the new cancer treatment center. Her work has also been chosen for labels on Ste. Michelle Winery's artist series wine, a 2006 meritage wine to be released in Fall 2009. http:www.evaisaksen.com |
| lives in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, and has taught in Spain and Argentina with support from Fulbright fellowships. He also received a 1990 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in fiction. His most recent book of fiction is Afoot in the Garden of Enchantments (2007). |
| is the author of the novel, Blue (Murphy's Law Press). Her short fiction and travel writing have appeared or are forthcoming in Avatar Review, flashquake, Identity Theory, Eclectica, Smokelong Quarterly, and many other diverse publications. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best Creative Nonfiction. A former resident of Arizona, she currently resides in Poznan, Poland with her husband and her rabbit. |
| fifth book, Rachel in the World, was published in Fall 2007. Her awards include arts fellowships in both New Jersey and Pennsylvania, two National Endowment Fellowships, and a 2004 Fulbright Fellowship spent in Israel, where she taught at Bar-Ilan University's Creative Writing Program. She has written screenplays, and essays that have been 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. |
| received her MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College. A former RN and childhood cancer survivor, she is writing a memoir about the long-term effects of cancer treatments. She lives outside Boston with her husband. |
| poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Eclipse, Poetry Southeast, Blue Earth Review, and elsewhere. She received her MFA in creative writing from Minnesota State University-Mankato and will begin the University of South Dakota’s Ph.D. program in English this fall. |
| A native of Maine, lives in Tallahassee, where she is an Associate Professor of English at The Florida State University. She is the Director of Runaway with Words, a poetry workshop for runaway and homeless youths, and an Associate Director of Anhinga Press, a publisher of fine poetry. Her poems have appeared in such journals as Seneca Review, Small Press Magazine, Crazyhorse, Writers' Forum, Louisiana Literature and Tampa Review. In summer 2000, she was awarded a residency at Villa Montalvo in California, and, in summer 2001, she was awarded a similar residency at the Blue Mountain Center, Blue Mountain Lake, New York. In 2005, she won the Weldon Kees Award for her chapbook La Florida, which was subsequently published by Backwaters Press. |
| was born, lives, and works in Rio de Janeiro. The artist´s most significant solo and group exhibitions include those held at the Culturgest, in Lisbon, Portugal; the XXV São Paulo International Biennial, Brazil; the Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; the Tomie Ohtake Institute, in São Paulo, Brazil; the Arizona State University Art Museum in Phoenix, Arizona; the Patio Herreriano Spanish Museum of Contemporary Art, in Valladolid, Spain; the Valencian Institute of Modern Art (IVAM), in Valencia, Spain and the Museum of Contemporary Art (MARCO), in Vigo, Spain. His works are included in public and private collections in Brazil and abroad. |
| first collection of poetry, Some Nights No Cars At All, was published by Ausable Press and is now distributed by Copper Canyon. He has been named a Virginia G. Piper writing fellow. His work has received many awards and has appeared in numerous literary journals, including Indiana Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Fugue, Meridian, Passages North, Puerto Del Sol, Gulf Coast, Sycamore Review, and Verse Daily. He is currently the Coordinator of Creative Writing at Mesa Community College. |
| grew up in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. She lived in Arizona for several years before settling in Kentucky where she currenly makes her home with her husband (the writer R. Dean Johnson) and their one year old son. Her poems and stories have appeared in many journals, including Indiana Review, Redivider, Phoebe, Ellipsis, and Ruminate. She is a member of the core faculty of the brief residency MFA program at Eastern Kentucky University. |
| Karen Green lives and works out of her studio/gallery, "Beautiful Crap," in Claremont, California. More of her work can been seen at beautifulcrap.com. Her book Here/Gone, an alphabet book for grownups, was published by Spineless Books in October, 2008. |
| is the author of two books of poems: Small Knots and the chapbook Geography. Her work has been published in the Atlantic Monthly, Prairie Schooner, Notre Dame Review, North American Review, Crab Orchard Review and Image. Her work has been featured on NPR's “The Writer's Almanac” with Garrison Keillor and in Keillor's second anthology, Good Poems for Hard Times. Born and educated in the Pacific Northwest, Kelli is a graduate of the University of Washington and Pacific Lutheran University's Rainier Writers Program where she received her MFA. Currently, she edits the literary journal Crab Creek Review. Visit her at: www.agodon.com |
| Kim Eugene Hood studied painting at the University of Washington and photography at the Photographic Center Northwest in Seattle. He currently works as an outdoor guide and fine art photographer. A passion for travel and exploration has driven him to climb and trek in mountain ranges on all seven continents. Kim has shown his photographs nationally, including the Denver International Airport Invitational and the Texas Photographic Society National Juried Competition. He was a finalist in the 2007 American Photographer Photo of the Year competition. Kim recently published his first book of photography and prose, “Seven Continents.” Website: www.kimhoodphotography.com. |
| was born in New York City, received a B.A. in English Literature from Yale University, an M.D. from Harvard Medical School, and moved to the West Coast in the 1960s where he now lives in the small ocean town of Del Mar, California. He has published a novel, Sea Nymphs by the Hour, (Bobbs-Merrill), and short stories in Ascent (Pushcart Prize nomination), Kansas Quarterly, Chouteau Review, Black Warrior Review and Confrontation. He has also written over a dozen plays, which have received workshop productions and staged readings in this country and abroad. One of his plays, Screwball, was given a full production at the South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, California, and won a Drama-Logue award. |
| In May 2008, received an MA in English from a joint program between the Citadel and the College of Charleston in South Carolina. She now lives in Stillwater, Oklahoma and is enrolled in the PhD program in Literature at Oklahoma State University. |
| is the Draper Lecturer in Nonfiction at Stanford. Her poetry and essays are recently out in Third Coast, Literary Mama, and Creative Nonfiction. |
| work has appeared in the anthologies American Poetry: The Next Generation (Carnegie Mellon Press), Places of Passage: Contemporary Catholic Poetry (Story Line Press), Thus Spake the Corpse: An Exquisite Corpse Reader 1988-1998 (Black Sparrow Press) and Under the Legislature of Stars: 62 New Hampshire Poets (Oyster River Press) which he also co-edited. He was recently selected as Portsmouth New Hampshire’s seventh Poet Laureate. |
| has written the novel, Sisters of the Dream; short story collection, Delicate; essays Bonelight: ruin and grace in the New Southwest; memoir/essays Solace: rituals of loss and desire. She's writing a book on women and compulsive gambling for Seal Press and is co-writing with a man who has befriended a wounded eagle. Her short stories and essays are in High Country News, Mountain Gazette, and many literary magazines. She's an NPR commentator, and teaches writing throughout the West. She began her serious writing in 1985 at 45, after she raised her three kids as a divorced mom. |
| is a novelist and screenwriter from Tempe, Arizona; originally from Connecticut, he earned his undergraduate degree in creative writing and biology from Colgate University in New York. His short fiction has received several awards, including Colgate University's Lasher Prize, and an honorable mention for Arizona State University's Swarthout Award. Brennan has won fellowships to teach abroad and attend conferences and residencies in China, Mexico, Canada, and Australia. Brennan works at Arizona State University as the Program Assistant for Global Engagement at the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing, and is a former prose editor for Hayden's Ferry Review. He is currently finishing his MFA degree from ASU. |
When Michael Berberich was 15 he was punished for talking in class and was assigned to ruminate and write about a pile of dirt. Thus was a writer born. He has taught writing and humanities at Galveston College for 21 years and has been published several times in Notre Dame Magazine . He was also featured in the special John McPhee edition of Creative Nonfiction, which featured (aside from McPhee) pieces by Phillip Lopate, Ellen Gilchrist, and others. For several years, Michael also wrote a column for the Two-Year College English Association's Southwest regional newsletter (TYCA-SW Newsletter), which went to 1,500 community college English teachers in six southwest states. |
| Michael S. Harper was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1938. He earned a B.A. and M.A. from what is now known as California State University, and an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa. He has published more than ten books of poetry, most recently Selected Poems (ARC Publications, 2002); Songlines in Michaeltree: New and Collected Poems (2000); Honorable Amendments (1995); and Healing Song for the Inner Ear (1985). He was the first Poet Laureate of the State of Rhode Island (1988-1993) and has received many other honors, including a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation and a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Award. Michael S. Harper is University Professor and Professor of English at Brown University, where he has taught since 1970. He lives in Barrington, Rhode Island. |
| grew up in the Northwoods of Wisconsin and Upper Michigan and now lives in Lincoln, Nebraska, where she is a PhD student at UN-L. Her work appears in Boxcar Poetry Review, The Pedestal Magazine, Diagram, and other literary journals. She is happy to now live in a place that actually experiences the season of spring. |
| has had fiction and creative nonfiction appear in various anthologies, and journals including American Fiction: Best Unpublished Short Stories by Emerging Writers, Other Voices, F Magazine, River Teeth, Fourth Genre, Brevity, Creative Nonfiction, and Air Canada's en Route magazine. She is also published in The Truth of the Matter: Art and Craft in Creative Nonfiction edited by Dinty W. Moore. She's received numerous Illinois Arts Council Awards and Pushcart Prize nominations in fiction and nonfiction. McNair teaches in the Fiction Writing Department of Columbia College Chicago. She lives in Chicago with her husband, the artist Philip Hartigan. |
| is the author of two books of travel literature: Pilgrimage: Tales from the Open Road and Over Sand & Sea. His work has been selected for several Travelers’ Tales anthologies, including Best Travel Writing 2007. His short stories appear in literary magazines such as International Quarterly, Fifth Wednesday Journal and Alimentum. His poetry has been published in Pearl, Juked, Chiron Review, flashquake, Tipton Poetry Journal and elsewhere. For the last twenty years he has lived in Barcelona, Spain. Visit his website at www.patrickpfister.com |
| After years of writing and painting, has moved to another medium: photography. In the past his work's been featured in many prestigious print and online journals including: Existere, Failbetter, Hobart, International Poetry Review, Red Wheelbarrow, Reed, and Willard & Maple. Doing interviews, collaborating with other artists, and pushing the borders of creativity, his mission is to broaden the ways the world sees art. Visit his online gallery at: www.sitrahahra.com. |
| Philip Jenks was born in North Carolina and grew up in Morgantown, West Virginia. He got his BA from Reed College, MA in Creative Writing from Boston University, and doctorate from University of Kentucky in Political Science. He has studied under Susan Bordo, Fish, Pinsky, and Walcott. He sings and plays percussion with The Howling Hex, contributing to their upcoming album XI, being released August 28th on Drag City. He teaches English at University of Illinois at Chicago and Political Science at Lewis University. Flood Editions published his first volume of poems in 2002, On the Cave You Live In and a second volume of poems, “My First Painting will be The Accuser” was released on Zephyr Press (2005). |
| is the author of ten books of poetry, and three collections of essays. His poetry has appeared in the 1999, 2000, and 2003 editions of The Best American Poetry (Scribners) and The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses 2000 (Pushcart Press) which received the 2003 Carr P. Collins/ Texas Institute of Letters Award for Best Book of Non-fiction, was named one of ten Best Southwest Books of the Year by the Arizona Humanities Commission, named one of the Best Non-fiction Books of the Year by the Rocky Mountain News, and named a Minnesota Book Award Finalist in Memoir. He is Full Professor in the MFA Creative Writing Program at The University of Minnesota in Minneapolis and also teaches in the Solstice low residency MFA Program at Pine Manor College in Boston. |
| is the author of The Spider Sermons, which will be released in 2009 by BlazeVOX Books. His work has appeared in numerous journals, including Blackbird, The Mid-American Review, Barrow Street, and Tarpaulin Sky, among others. In 2007, H-ngm-n Books released his chapbook, Theory of the Walking Big Bang. He lives in Los Angeles and teaches at the University of California at Santa Barbara. |
| twelve books of poetry, fiction, and criticism include Long for this World: New and Selected Poems and For a Limited Time Only both from the University of Pittsburgh Press. He co-directs the creative writing program at the University of Wisconsin and edits the University of Wisconsin Press Poetry Series. He divides his time between Madison and a 40-acre farm in Bear Valley, Wisconsin. |
| Ruth Ellen Kocher's work has been published in Callaloo, Cimarron Review, Ploughshares, African American Review,The Gettysburg Review, The Missouri Review, Washington Square Journal, Crab Orchard Review, ninth letter, as well as other literary journals, and has been translated into Persian in the Iranian literary magazine She'r. Her first book of poetry, Desdemona's Fire, won the Naomi Long Madget Award for African American Poets and was published by Lotus Press in 1999. Her second book, When the Moon Knows You're Wandering, won the Green Rose Prose and was published by Western Michigan and New Issues Poetry and Prose in 2001, who also published her third book, One Girl Babylon. She has been a fellow at the Bucknell Seminar, the Cave Canem Workshop, and Yaddo. She teaches in the MFA program at the University of Colorado-Boulder. |
| photography started out as poetry. While living in New Brunswick, he purchased his first camera and started to examine the role of nature in urban landscapes. His work has developed from endless experimentation and been influenced by photographers Amanda Smith and Matthew Burns. In recent years, ryan has focused on abandoned homes and factories in Binghamton, New York. These locations serve as illustrations for both the destruction and the preservation of social memory. His work has been exhibited in galleries throughout New York and New Jersey as well as in Italy. You can view more of his photographs at www.ryangbeckman.com |
| Sherman Alexie's awards and honors include the 2007 Western Literature Association's Distinguished Achievement Award and the 2003 Regents' Distinguished Alumnus Award, Washington State University's highest honor for alumni. His work was selected for inclusion in The Best American Short Stories 2004, edited by Lorrie Moore, and Pushcart Prize XXIX of the Small Presses. His short story "What You Pawn I Will Redeem" was selected by juror Ann Patchett as her favorite story for The O. Henry Prize Stories 2005. Alexie's most recent novels are Flight, released in April 2007 by Grove/ Atlantic, and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, his first young adult novel, published in September 2007 by Little, Brown. Hanging Loose Press will release a new collection of his poems, Face, in March 2009. Sherman Alexie lives in Seattle, WA, with his wife and two sons. |
| Simone Muench was raised in Louisiana and Arkansas and lives in Chicago, Illinois. She is the author of three books: The Air Lost in Breathing (Marianne Moore Prize for Poetry; Helicon Nine, 2000), Lampblack & Ash (Kathryn A. Morton Prize for Poetry; Sarabande, 2005), and Orange Crush (Sarabande, forthcoming in 2010). Her latest chapbooks are Orange Girl (dancing girl press, 2007) and Sonoluminescence written with Bill Allegrezza (Dusie Press, 2007). She is a recipient of numerous awards and received her Ph.D from the University of Illinois at Chicago and is director of the Writing Program at Lewis University where she teaches creative writing and film studies. She has a website at www.simonemuench.com |
| short story collection titled "Feeding Strays" will be coming out with Lost Horse Press in September 2009. Her short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in many magazines, including Glimmer Train, American Literary Review, South Dakota Review, Literary Mama, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Westview, and Talking River. Stefanie has a MFA from the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts: Whidbey Writers Workshop. After receiving the Kathy Fish Fellowship and serving as the 2008 Writer In Residence for SmokeLong Quarterly, she joined their editorial staff. www.stefaniefreele.com |
| Stella Pope Duarte's first collection of short stories, Fragile Night, won a creative writing fellowship from the Arizona Commission on the Arts, and was named a candidate for the Pen West Fiction Award. In 2001, Ms. Duarte was awarded a second creative writing fellowship for her highly acclaimed, debut novel, Let Their Spirits Dance. Ms. Duarte's work has won honors and awards nationwide, and most recently her current novel, If I Die in Juárez, was selected as a “Top Pick” in the Southwest Books of the Year Competition. Ms. Duarte was born and raised in the Sonorita Barrio in South Phoenix. |
| is a Phoenix native of the worst kind, the kind that prattles on endlessly about the good old days when there was nothing North of Camelback Road and folks rode horseback through the neighborhood on the way to the desert. Exposed to photography in high school, he only complicated matters by attending the San Francisco Art Institute and Arizona State University, getting a B.F.A. in 1978 that taught him the difference between the "winkin'" eye" and the "shootin' eye". His work is in the fine art collections of Del Webb Corporation, Salt River Project and the Gallagher Kennedy law firm. |
| T. Coraghessan Boyle is the author of twenty books of fiction, including, most recently, Tooth and Claw (2005), The Human Fly (2005), Talk Talk (2006), and The Women (2009). He received a Ph.D. degree in Nineteenth Century British Literature 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. His stories have appeared in most of the major American magazines, including The New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, The Atlantic Monthly, Playboy, The Paris Review, GQ, Antaeus, Granta and McSweeney's. He currently lives near Santa Barbara with his wife and three children. |
| is a recent graduate of the University of Redlands where she received her BA in creative writing. Her work has appeared in Decomp magazine and Poetic Desperation. She also has a poem forthcoming in the April issue of Apt magazine. She was the fiction editor for the University of Redlands literary magazine, Redlands Review, and has published various works in the Giraffe, the university's underground literary magazine. She currently lives in Northern California where she enjoys photography, singing, and music of all kinds. |
| This is first published work. He recently completed his first novel. Since attending UCLA many years ago as a film major, he has taken numerous writing courses here and there. He lives in Southern California with his wife and son. |
