Denis Johnson is the author of several novels, plays, and books of verse. His novel Tree of Smoke was the 2007 winner of the National Book Award. He lives in North Idaho.

Padgett Powell has published six novels-–Edisto, A Woman Named Drown (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1984 and 1987), Edisto Revisited (Henry Holt, 1996), Mrs. Hollingsworth’s Men (Houghton Mifflin, 2000), The Interrogative Mood (Ecco, 2009), You & I (Profile Books, 2011)-–and two story collections, Typical (FS&G, 1991)and Aliens of Affection (Holt, 1998). Edisto made TIME’s Best-of-Year Fiction […]

New York Times best-selling author Tayari Jones is the author of four novels, most recently An American Marriage. Published in 2018, An American Marriage is an Oprah’s Book Club Selection and also appeared on Barack Obama’s summer reading list as well as his end of the year roundup.  The novel was awarded the Women’s Prize for Fiction […]

Sam Lipsyte is the author of the story collection Venus Drive and three novels: The Ask, a New York Times Notable book for 2010, The Subject Steve and Home Land, also a New York Times Notable Book and winner of the first annual Believer Book Award. A 2008 Guggenheim Fellow, Lipsyte’s fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, The Paris Review,The Quarterly, […]

R. Dean Johnson is the author of the novel, Californium (Plume-Penguin), and the story collection, Delicate Men (Alternative Book). His essays and stories have appeared in Ascent, Cimarron Review, Hawai’i Pacific Review, Natural Bridge, Salt Hill, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. A professor at Eastern Kentucky University, he directs their low-res MFA in Creative Writing […]

Julie Hensley is an Appalachian writer and core faculty member of the Bluegrass Writers Studio at Eastern Kentucky University, where she teaches both fiction and poetry. She has been awarded fellowships from Jentel Arts, Yaddo, Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences, Hypatia-in-the-Woods, and the Tyrone Guthrie Center. Her poems and stories have appeared in […]