Category: Master’s Degree

Jane Sprague is the author of the books The Port of Los Angeles (Chax Press, 2009) and, with Tina Darragh and Diane Ward, The *Belladonna Elders Series 8 (*Belladonna, 2009). She is also author of the chapbooks Apache Roadkill (Dusie / Weekend Press, 2009),Sacking the Henwife (Dusie, 2007), Entropic Liberties (with Jonathan Skinner; Dusie, 2006), fuck your pastoral (Subpoetics, 2005) and The Port of Los Angeles (Subpoetics, 2004)… Continue reading Jane Sprague

Thomas Glave was born in the Bronx and grew up there and in Kingston, Jamaica. A graduate of Bowdoin College and Brown University, Glave traveled as a Fulbright Scholar to Jamaica, where he studied Jamaican historiography and Caribbean intellectual and literary traditions. While in Jamaica, Glave worked on issues of social justice, and helped found… Continue reading Thomas Glave

Erik Davis is a San Francisco-based writer, performer, and teacher. He is the author of The Visionary State: A Journey through California’s Spiritual Landscape, and TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information, which has become a cult classic of visionary media studies. He also wrote a short book of “occulture criticism” on Led Zeppelin’s… Continue reading Erik Davis

Martha Southgate received her MFA in fiction from Goddard College. In 1996, her Goddard thesis was published as Another Way to Dance, a young-adult novel which won the Coretta Scott King Genesis Award for Best First Novel. She went on to publish two adult novels: The Fall of Rome (2003), and Third Girl From The Left(2005). She received a… Continue reading Martha Southgate

Meg Wolitzer’s novels include The Uncoupling; The Ten-Year-Nap; The Position; and The Wife, among others.  Her first novel, Sleepwalking, was published the year after she graduated from Brown University, and she has been living and working as a fiction writer ever since then.  Wolitzer’s short fiction has appeared in The Best American Short Stories and The Pushcart Prize. … Continue reading Meg Wolitzer

Christian Peet is the author of the forthcoming true-crime novel, Angela’s Story (GenPop Books); a collection of “postcards,” called Big American Trip (Shearsman Books, 2009); and two chapbook-installments of his ongoing project The Nines, “Pluto: Never Forget,” (Interbirth Books), and “The Nines (Book 1),” from Palm Press. His work is included in the anthology, A Best Of Fence: The First… Continue reading Christian Peet

Selah Saterstrom is the author of The Meat & Spirit Plan [Coffee House Press, Fall 2007], and The Pink Institution [Coffee House Press, 2004]. Her work has recently appeared in Cranbrook Magazine, 14 Hills, Tarpaulin Sky, The American Book Review, and other places. She has been the Case Writer-In-Residence for Western Illinois University and Artist-In-Residence at Warren Wilson College in… Continue reading Selah Saterstrom

Michael Wiegers is the Executive Editor of Copper Canyon Press and has worked in Literary publishing for nearly two decades. He has edited books by Ted Kooser, W.S. Merwin, Ruth Stone, C.D. Wright, Alberto Ríos, Karen Tei Yamashita and many others. His own books include, Reversible Monuments and This Art.

Dorothy Allison grew up in Greenville, South Carolina, the first child of a fifteen-year-old unwed mother who worked as a waitress. Now living in Northern California with her partner Alix and her teenage son, Wolf Michael, she describes herself as a feminist, a working class storyteller, a Southern expatriate, a sometime poet and a happily… Continue reading Dorothy Allison

Cara Hoffman is the author of the critically acclaimed novel So Much Pretty, which was chosen for the New Yorker’s “Books Pick,” and Entertainment Weekly’s “Must List,” and was submitted for a National Book Award. Marilyn Stasio of The New York Times calledSo Much Pretty “a fearless first novel” describing Hoffman’s writing as having “a restraint that… Continue reading Cara Hoffman

Gary Copeland Lilley is a North Carolina native and earned his MFA from the Warren Wilson College Program for Writers.  His publications include four books of poetry of which the most recent is Alpha Zulu from Ausable Press/Copper Canyon Press.  He currently lives and teaches in Port Townsend, WA.

Dael won an OBIE Award for Beauty’s Daughter, which she wrote and starred in at American Place Theatre.  She toured extensively with the Nuyorican Poets Café (Real Live Poetry) throughout the US, Europe and Australia.  Her play, Monster, premiered at New York Theatre Workshop in November 1996. Dael attended Sundance Theatre Festival Lab for four summers developing… Continue reading Dael Orlandersmith

Hettie Jones is a poet and prose writer, author of How I Became Hettie Jones, a memoir of the “beat scene” of the fifties and sixties, currently available in a paperback edition from Grove Press.  Jones’s short prose has been published in journals such as Fence, Global City Review and Ploughshares, and she has also written numerous books for… Continue reading Hettie Jones

Kim Addonizio is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently What Is This Thing Called Love (W.W. Norton). Her novel, Little Beauties, was recently published by Simon & Schuster. With Dorianne Laux, she co-authored The Poet’s Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry (W.W. Norton). She has received numerous awards for her poetry and fiction, including… Continue reading Kim Addonizio

Linda Villarosa is a freelance writer and editor. Formerly, she edited the health pages for the New York Times, where she redesigned and expanded health coverage for Science Timesand for the newspaper at large. Linda was also both the executive editor and senior health editor of Essence Magazine, where she wrote or edited a number of award-winning articles.… Continue reading Linda Villarosa

Gary Garrison was recently appointed Executive Director of the Dramatist Guild of America – the national organization of playwrights, lyricists and composers. For the past ten years he has filled the posts of Artistic Director, Producer and fulltime faculty member in the Department of Dramatic Writing at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. He has… Continue reading Gary Garrison

Eileen Myles’s Inferno (a poet’s novel) came out last fall from orbooks.com. Alison Bechdel described Inferno as “this shimmering document”. Eileen’s books of poetry include Skies, Not Me, School of Fish and Sorry, Tree. Chelsea Girls, her first fiction, appeared in 1994 followed by Cool for You (a nonfiction novel) in 2000. She’s a professor emeritus from UC, San Diego and lives in New York.… Continue reading Eileen Myles

Shelley Jackson is the author of the story collection The Melancholy of Anatomy, the novel Half Life, hypertexts including Patchwork Girl, and several children’s books. Her stories and essays have appeared in journals including McSweeney’s, Conjunctions, The Paris Review andCabinet Magazine. In 2004 she launched her project SKIN, a story published in tattoos on 2095 volunteers. The recipient of a Howard… Continue reading Shelley Jackson

Chris Abani’s prose includes the novels The Virgin of Flames (Penguin, 2007) GraceLand (FSG, 2004/Picador 2005), Masters of the Board(Delta, 1985) and the novellas, Becoming Abigail (Akashic, 2006) andSong For Night (Akashic, 2007). His poetry collections are Hands Washing Water (Copper Canyon, 2006), Dog Woman (Red Hen, 2004),Daphne’s Lot (Red Hen, 2003), and Kalakuta Republic (Saqi, 2001). He is a Professor at the University of California, Riverside and the recipient… Continue reading Chris Abani

Amy Scholder has been editing literary and political book for over twenty years. She became Editorial Director of the Feminist Press in September 2008, where she has acquired books by Haifa Zangana, Ann Jones, Karen Finley, Josh MacPhee, Elizabeth Streb, Laura Whitehorn, Safiya Bukhari, Darina al-Joundi, Virginie Despentes, Judith Halberstam, Barbara Hammer, and more. Previously,… Continue reading Amy Scholder