October 1, 2010: Jim Tomlinson (fiction) / Catie Rosemurgy (poetry)
Jim Tomlinsonlives and writes in Berea, Kentucky. His work has appeared in Five Points, Shenandoah, Bellevue Literary Review, and New Stories From The South 2008. Jim is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, an Al Smith Fellowship from the Kentucky Arts Council, and a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship to Sewanee Writers' Conference. His newest book of stories, Nothing Like An Ocean (University Press of Kentucky, 2009) is the follow-up to his award winning debut, Things Kept, Things Left Behind.
Catie Rosemurgy is the author of The Stranger Manual and My Favorite Apocalypse (both from Graywolf Press). She lives in Philadelphia and teaches at the College of New Jersey.
“Gist Street was my favorite reading ever. Ever in the world! Surely, the most attentive, generous, fun, classy, nattily dressed crowd in the history of poetry. Everyone bought books! My god! Okay I didn't move fast enough to sample the zucchini bread, but I hope to be back. And when I do I'll bring a rhubarb pie.”
