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January 10, 2003
G.C. Waldrep’s poetry has appeared in Poetry, Gettysburg Review, South Carolina Review, West Branch, Many Mountains Moving, Ascent, and other journals. He has recently had residencies at Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. His book of cultural criticism, Southern Workers and the Search for Community, is available from University of Illinois Press and he is now completing his first book of poems, tentatively entitled Sacropedia. From 1995 to late 2000 he was a member of the New Order Amish community at Yanceyville, N.C. He currently lives in North Carolina, where he works as a day laborer. Sample of his work
February 7, 2003
Geeta Kothari’s fiction and nonfiction have appeared in various anthologies and journals, including the New England Review, The Pittsburgh Quarterly, and the Kenyon Review. She is the editor of Did My Mama Like to Dance? an anthology of mother-daughter stories, and her essay “If you are what you eat, then what am I?” was selected for Best American Essays 2000.
March 7, 2003
Erin Flanagan’s fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Colorado Review, The Baltimore Review, The South Carolina Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Cimarron Review, Connecticut Review, the anthology Best New American Voices 2001, and elsewhere. She has held scholarships at Bread Loaf and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and will attend Vermont Studio Center in summer 2002 on a full fellowship. She is managing editor of Prairie Schooner, and a PhD student in English at the University of Nebraska Lincoln. Sample of her work
Kristin Naca is a native of Northern Virginia. She lived in Seattle and Cincinnati before coming to Pittsburgh, where she is an MFA student at the University of Pittsburgh. Recently, her work has appeared in 5am, Asian-Pacific American Journal, and The North American Review. She’s currently working on her first collection of poetry.
April 5, 2003
Elaine Sexton’s poems have appeared in various journals including American Poetry Review, the Christian Science Monitor, 5 AM, New Letters, and Prairie Schooner. Her first collection, Sleuth, will be published by New Issues Press in 2003. Sexton holds an MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College. She lives in New York City, where she works in magazine publishing. Sample of her work
Lucrecia Guerrero’s first collection of short stories, Chasing Shadows, was published by Chronicle Books in 2000. Her stories have also appeared in journals such as the Colorado Review and ByLine. A Pushcart Prize nominee, she has been awarded an Individual Artist Fellowship from Montgomery County Arts and Culture District and a Hedgebrook Residency Fellowship. She is currently writing a novel.
May 2, 2003
John Fulton is the author of two books of fiction. His short story collection, Retribution, won The Southern Review Short Story Award for the best first collection of stories published in 2001. His novel, More Than Enough, was a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers selection. His stories have been short-listed for the O. Henry Award and have appeared in numerous national and international literary magazines, such as The Southern Review, Zoetrope, and Oxford American. He has taught literature and writing at the University of Michigan for the last six years. Sample of his work
Sharon F. McDermott is a poet and Associate Director of Outreach and Education for the Center for Environmental Oncology of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute. Until 2005, McDermott was a Visiting Lecturer, teaching poetry at the University of Pittsburgh, where, in April 2005, she won the Tina and David Award, the highest teaching award in the college of arts and sciences. She was a 2002 recipient of a PA Council on the Arts grant and a $10,000 artist commendation by The Pittsburgh Foundation. Her chapbook, Voluptuous, was published in fall 2001 by Ultima Obscura Press. In September 2005, Parallel Press, University of Wisconsin-Madison, published her chapbook Alley Scatting, inspired by the alleyways of Friendship, Bloomfield, and Lawrenceville in Pittsburgh. (Bio updated July 2007)
June 13, 2003
Meg Kearney’s first collection of poetry, An Unkindness of Ravens, was published by BOA Editions, Ltd. in October 2001. Her poetry has been published or is forthcoming in such publications as Agni, Ploughshares, The Gettysburg Review, DoubleTake, Black Warrior Review, Third Coast, Tar River Poetry, Passages North, and the anthologies Where Icarus Falls (Santa Barbara Review Publications, 1998) and and Urban Nature (Milkweed Press, 2000).
Meg is the Associate Director of the National Book Foundation, sponsor of the National Book Awards, headquartered in New York City. Before joining the Foundation in 1994, she organized educational programs and conducted power plant tours for a gas and electric utility in upstate New York.
Recipient of an 2001 Artist’s Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Meg also received a New York Times Fellowship and the Alice M. Sellers Academy of American Poets Award in 1998 and the Geraldine Griffin Moore Award in Creative Writing in 1997 from The City College of New York and and the Frances B. DeNagy Poetry Award in 1985 from Marist College. She was a Fellow at the Virginia Center for the Arts in 1998-1999 and 1999-2000 and and 2000-2001.
She is a former Poetry Editor of Echoes, a quarterly literary journal, and past president of the Hudson Valley Writers Association of upstate New York.
Meg was born in Manhattan and grew up in the town of LaGrange, 75 miles north of New York City. She received her MA in English/Creative Writing from The City College, City University of New York, in 1999. She resides in New York City. For more information, visit www.megkearney.com. Sample of her work
Catherine E. McKinley is the author of the memoir The Book of Sarahs (Counterpoint/Basic Books, October 2002), and co-editor of the anthology Afrekete (Anchor Books/Doubelday, 1995). She is the Associate Director of the Publishing Certificate Program at The City College of New York, and teaches creative writing. She was a recent Fulbright Scholar in Ghana, West Africa (1999-2001), and was the recipient of an Audre Lorde Estate Award, a New York Foundation for the Arts fiction grant, and a MacDowell Colony for the Arts residency. She lives in New York City.
July 19, 2003
Sudden Stories: A Mammoth Anthology of Minuscule Fiction is an anthology of extremely brief fictions, 300 words or less. Featured writers include Denise Duhamel, Bret Lott, Scott Russell Sanders, Virgil Suarez, Jesse Lee Kerchavel, Melanie Thon, Judith Ortiz Cofer, and many others. The book is edited by Dinty W. Moore.
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August 8, 2003
Kate Flaherty’s fiction and nonfiction have appeared in several literary magazines that you either have or haven’t heard of, most recently Ascent, Vermont Literary Review, and Fourth Genre. For ten years she has worked in various capacities for the literary magazine Prairie Schooner, and edited, with Hilda Raz, The Best of Prairie Schooner: Personal Essays (University of Nebraska Press, 2000). Now a freelance writer based in Dayton, Ohio, she is at work on a young adult novel with the desperate hope she will be able to make herself marketable and won’t have to get a real job.
John Struloeff grew up on the north Oregon coast, the setting for most of his writing. Last summer he completed a short story collection, Animals: Stories, and a novel, A Winter’s Rain. Stories from Animals have been (or will soon be) published in The Literary Review, Other Voices, Willow Review, and Writers’ Forum, among others, and have been nominated three times for a Pushcart Prize. A few years ago he began writing poetry and creative nonfiction and is slowly filling out a collection of poems. Currently he teaches writing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he is also a Ph.D. student in creative writing. For his dissertation he is writing an historical novel about religious oppression and exile set in Tolstoy-era Russia and rural Canada. Sample of his work
Bernie Jungle has been a singer/songwriter for over two decades. Currently he plays a homemade percussion contraption named Shirley for the San Francisco based western swing and calypso group, the Lipsey Mountain Spring Band (who will play a special post-Thanksgiving show at Gist Street). Bernie is stopping by Gist Street in August while on tour with Peter Altenberg who plays tabla and sarangi.
September 5, 2003
Ann Pancake is the author of Given Ground, the Winner of the Katharine Bakeless Nason Fiction Prize in 2000, published by University Press of New England. She has published short stories in Virginia Quarterly Review, Shenandoah, Antietam Review, and other journals and is the recipient of the Tennessee Williams Fellowship in Fiction, the Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize, and a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writers’ Fellowship. Sample of her work
October 3, 2003
Ed Ochester’s most recent books include: The Land of Cockaigne (2001 Story Line Press), Snow White Horses: Selected Poems 1973-1988, Cooking in Key West (chapbook–1999 Adastra Press), Changing the Name to Ochester (1988 Carnegie Mellon), and Allegheny (chapbook–1995 Adastra Press). He edits the Pitt Poetry Series and is general editor of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize for short fiction, both published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. He is a member of the core faculty of the MFA writing seminars at Bennington College, and for nearly twenty years was director of the Writing Program at the University of Pittsburgh. This spring he”ll be “distinguished visiting poet” at Wichita State University. A long interview with Ed will appear in the March/April issue of the AWP Writer’s Chronicle. Sample of his work
November 7, 2003
Gerry LaFemina’s latest book is Graffiti Heart, winner of the 2001 Anthony Picione Prize in Poetry from Mammoth Books. His other collections include 23 Below,
Shattered Hours: Poems 1988-94
, and
Zarathustra in Love, as well as two forthcoming collections. He is also co-translator with Sinan Toprak of
Voice Lock Puppet: Poems by contemporary Turkish poet Ali Yuce. His work has appeared in numerous anthologies and literary journals. Currently a guest professor of writing at Grand Valley State University, LaFemina serves on the Board of Directors of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP).
Mary Ann Samyn’s books include Inside the Yellow Dress,
Captivity Narrative (winner of the OSU Press/The Journal award) and
Rooms by the Sea. A new book, Purr, will be released next year. For her work she has received numerous awards and honors including the Emily Dickinson Award from the Poetry Society of America and an ArtServe Michigan Creative Artist Grant. She currently teaches in the MFA program at West Virginia University.
November 28, 2003
Michael DeCapite was born in Cleveland, Ohio. His experiences as a cab driver in that city provided the starting point for first novel, Through The Windshield, which he wrote in London and Brooklyn in the 1980s and which was published in 1998 by Sparkle Street Books. Harvey Pekar, in The Austin Chronicle, called it “one of the best American novels of the last several years.” His story “Sitting Pretty” was published as a CUZ Edition in 1999, and has found a place in The Italian American Reader. At present he lives in San Francisco, where he writes a monthly column for Angle magazine and is finishing work on a second novel.
Dan Leone has two books, a collection of short stories called The Meaning of Lunch (Mammoth Books), and a nonfiction collection called Eat This, San Francisco (Sasquatch Books). His stories have appeared in The Paris Review, The Antioch Review, The Quarterly, New Stories from the South, Best American Mysteries, and elsewhere. He also writes a humorous weekly food column for The San Francisco Bay Guardian, and has published serialized fiction on the Guardian’s web-site.
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