Derek Nikitas is the author of the novels Pyres, nominated for an Edgar Award in 2008, and The Long Division, a Washington Post Book World Best Book of 2009. Both novels have also been nominated in France for the Elle magazine Reader’s Choice award. His short stories have been published in such journals as The […]

BRIAN EVENSON is the author of over a dozen books of fiction, most recently the story collection Good Night, Sleep Tight (2024). He has also recently published Windeye (Coffee House Press 2012) and Immobility (Tor 2012), both of which were finalists for a Shirley Jackson Award. His novel Last Days won the American Library Association’s […]

Frank X. Gaspar was born and raised in Provincetown, Massachusetts, of Azorean Descent (Pico, Sao Miguel). His ancestors were traditionally whalers and Grand Banks fisherman, sailing out of the Islands and then Provincetown. He holds an MFA from the Graduate Writing Program at UC Irvine and is the author of five collections of poetry and two […]

Christine Hume is the author of three books, most recently Shot (Counterpath 2010), and two chapbooks, Lullaby: Speculations on the First Active Sense (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2008) and Ventifacts (Onmidawn, 2012). A bilingual selected poems is coming out with Lux Books in Berlin, Germany in 2012. She teaches in and directs the interdisciplinary Creative Writing Program at Eastern Michigan University.

Kim Addonizio is the author of five collections of poetry including Tell Me, a 2000 National Book Award Finalist. Her work has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, two NEA Fellowships, the John Ciardi Lifetime Achievement Award, and other honors. Addonizio’s other books include two novels, Little Beauties and My Dreams Out in the Street; and a […]

ROBERT OLMSTEAD is the author of seven novels, the memoir STAY HERE WITH ME, and RIVER DOGS, a collection of short stories.  His three most recent novels, known as the Childs Trilogy: COAL BLACK HORSE, FAR BRIGHT STAR, and THE COLDEST NIGHT, have been optioned by Casey Affleck.  FAR BRIGHT STAR, declared one of the […]

Philip Graham is the author of seven books of fiction and nonfiction, including the story collections The Art of the Knock (William Morrow) and Interior Design (Scribner), and the novel How to Read an Unwritten Language (Scribner).  He is also the co-author (with his wife, the anthropologist Alma Gottlieb) of two memoirs of Africa, Parallel […]

John Frey is a graduate of the William Esper Studio for Actors in New York City (Meisner Technique) under the teaching of William Esper, and has worked as an actor in theater, film, and television in Europe and the United States for the past fifteen years. He has also taught acting in Lisbon, Copenhagen, and […]

Deb Olin Unferth is the author of the memoir Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the Sandinistas, a New York Times Critics’ Choice, the story collection Minor Robberies, and the novel Vacation, winner of the Cabell First Novel Award. Her work has been published in Harper’s, McSweeney’s, The Believer, the New York Times, the Boston Review, and elsewhere. […]

Adam Levin is the author of the novels The Instructions, Bubblegum, and Mount Chicago, as well as the story collection, Hot Pink. His writing has appeared in numerous publications, including The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, and Playboy. He has been a New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award winner, a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, […]