Lori Ostlund’s first collection of stories, The Bigness of the World (University of Georgia Press, hardcover October 2009, paperback October 2010), received the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, the California Book Award for First Fiction, and the Edmund White Debut Fiction Award, and was a Lambda finalist. The Story Prize named it a 2009 Notable Book. Stories from the collection have appeared in Best American Short Stories, The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories (forthcoming in 2011), The Kenyon Review, New England Review, Prairie Schooner, and The Georgia Review, among other publications. She was the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award and a fellowship to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. She lives in San Francisco but is currently the Kenan Visiting Writer at UNC-Chapel Hill.

Sharon Dolin's fourth book, Burn and Dodge (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008) won the AWP Donald Hall Prize in Poetry. Her other books include and Realm of the Possible (Four Way Books, 2004), Serious Pink (Marsh Hawk Press, 2003), and Heart Work (Sheep Meadow Press, 1995). She is Writer-in-Residence at Eugene Lang College, The New School. She also teaches at the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92^nd Street Y and directs The Center for Book Arts Annual Letterpress Poetry Chapbook Competition. www.sharondolin.com