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Alexander Chee is a recipient of a 2003 Whiting Award, a 2004 NEA Fellowship in Fiction and a 2010 MCCA Fellowship, and residency fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the VCCA, Ledig House, the Hermitage, Civitella Ranieri and Amtrak. His first novel, Edinburgh (2001), is a winner of the Michener Copernicus Prize, the AAWW Lit Award and the […]
Leslie Jamison is the author of The Empathy Exams, a New York Times bestselling essay collection, and a novel, The Gin Closet, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times First Fiction Award. Her work has appeared in Harper’s, Oxford American, A Public Space, Boston Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Believer, and the New York Times, […]
Mary Gaitskill is the author of the novels Two Girls, Fat and Thin and Veronica, as well as the story collections Bad Behavior, Because They Wanted To, and Don’t Cry. Her story “Secretary” was the basis for the feature film of the same name. Her stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, […]
Eileen Myles first became known to many Americans through her openly female write-in campaign for President of the United States in 1991-92. Her poetic education took place at St. Mark’s Poetry Project from 1975-77 in workshops lead by Alice Notley, Ted Berrigan and others and by attending hundreds of readings for about ten years and […]
Stephanie’s new play TAILS OF WASPS recently premiered with New Century Theatre Company. She just received an Elizabeth George Commission from Tony-Award winning South Coast Repertory Theatre. She recently adapted THE RAMAYANA for ACT Theatre’s 2012 mainstage season, with playwright Yussef el Guindi. Her play SWEET NOTHING: A GRIM (FAIRY)TALE, produced by Macha Monkey, was […]
Jordan Bass is the executive editor of McSweeney’s Publishing, where he’s helped to edit and design dozens of books, both fiction and nonfiction, since 2004.
Born on the coast of the Baltic Sea, Stefan Kiesbye studied drama and worked in radio before starting a degree in American studies, English and comparative literature at Berlin’s Free University. A scholarship brought him to Buffalo, NY, and he received an MFA in creative writing from the University of Michigan. His stories, poems and […]
Arthur Flowers, native of Memphis, is author of novels and nonfictions, including Another Good Loving Blues, Mojo Rising: Confessions of a 21st Century Conjureman, and the graphicwork, I See The Promised Land from Tara Books, India. He is a Delta based performance poet, webmaster of Rootsblog, and has been Executive Director of various nonprofits and […]
Rachel Kushner is the author of THE FLAMETHROWERS, which was a finalist for the 2013 National Book Award, the 2014 Folio Prize, and the James Tait Black Prize, longlisted for the 2014 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, and a New York Times Top Five Novel of 2013. Kushner’s debut novel, TELEX FROM CUBA, was a […]
Noy Holland’s latest work is I Was Trying to Describe What It Feels Like: New and Selected Stories, out now from Counterpoint Press. Noy’s debut novel, Bird, came out in 2015 to much critical acclaim. Other collections of short fiction and novellas include Swim for the Little One First (FC2), What Begins with Bird (FC2), […]